Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 01:24:06 -0800 From: hiren panchasara <hiren.panchasara@gmail.com> To: Juli Mallett <jmallett@freebsd.org> Cc: "freebsd-net@freebsd.org" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>, Damien Fleuriot <ml@my.gd> Subject: Re: Network Interface configuration Message-ID: <CALCpEUEaGTs78AqG7umSZV-tf2Hun45EwsLYyF5Spg4-YF85vw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CACVs6=9JLuXmHe9Ciwg-RgLUcu0hWTwzEnr4eE16wX2KynEmiA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CALCpEUFCjOvy4WdALpE_vzxk8sfypxwgg=L01iNorXrN=dCwrA@mail.gmail.com> <63821C69-16E5-4483-8307-69DCF2865E99@my.gd> <CALCpEUHrtQxLdiCtGN27jASgokpUTbSOU2dZAVYLxk81B1wPrQ@mail.gmail.com> <CACVs6=9JLuXmHe9Ciwg-RgLUcu0hWTwzEnr4eE16wX2KynEmiA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 12:49 AM, Juli Mallett <jmallett@freebsd.org> wrote: > In general, interfaces do > not come from the configuration files like rc.conf, however the way > that those interfaces are set up on boot is configured by files like > rc.conf. > Thanks Juli. So, does it mean that looking at getifaddrs() is the best way (as ifconfig is doing) to get the correct state of network interfaces at any point in time? And for the interface of your interest, you can check if rc.conf is specifying any persistent configuration or not. Hiren
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