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From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org>
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Subject: Re: lo0 not starting on boot
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On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 01:18:38PM -0800, Brooks Davis wrote:
...
> It used to be hard coded.  Today we force it to the front of the list
> in the network_interfaces=auto case, but don't do anything special with
> it in the other case.  We could change to code to always make it the
> first item in all cases if it exists at all, but I'm not particularly
> thrilled by that idea.  In general I don't recommend the use of
> network_interfaces at all and I'm tempted to nuke it at some point in
> the future.  It's not really necessicary any more becuse you can use the
> NOAUTO keyword in your ifconfig_<ifn> lines if you want them around, but
> don't want them used at boot.

the NOAUTO makes sense indeed.

basically it is a documentation issue - print a warning
when you parse rc.conf and find network_interfaces set,
and suggest NOAUTO instead.

	cheers
	luigi