From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 14 06:19:44 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50ED91065670 for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 06:19:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hiren.panchasara@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bk0-f54.google.com (mail-bk0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5BE58FC16 for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 06:19:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkcjc3 with SMTP id jc3so1358190bkc.13 for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 23:19:42 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=U0c9B1NhiHZ4Y8uUjBFlIaIY2J8xMT92vaWdQ2bFqws=; b=bdcK5dLqDf8GUzWprkEvQYxE3nLdestkbvM4sOrjGAskgUnlH6VBtJUel4t4fYqtBa OJZ8JQm280WwBWV+jjflMCp/DM6wvR3qJNQeycu5B7xle8hf54hR9noiSAo/WAoYQsg/ B1a43ScmMh0v8iHNt9161O103nnvz89GyclmTmQUNF6rfQAkU75jTrPgkaLZtewB+iWO OiwAkYD+8wzeDIQBByadURsPGlYLHtABIS9bwz3HzgiH172i39yYBfHx/Hm74csqLCnK U3Q8wEc2xcZpVUuBeCyUZw57MSMd1oHH8UYzxexLgzShmOhj0y2aZV+ukcIQ/tGuC8rX /U6Q== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.150.86 with SMTP id x22mr465328bkv.136.1331705982666; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 23:19:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.230.5 with HTTP; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 23:19:42 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 23:19:42 -0700 Message-ID: From: hiren panchasara To: Chuck Swiger Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Use of network_interfaces in rc.conf X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 06:19:44 -0000 Thanks Chuck for getting back. I have a question inlined: On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 10:32 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Mar 13, 2012, at 10:18 PM, hiren panchasara wrote: > >> What difference does it make when I have each (separately) in my > rc.conf: > >> > >> 1) no network_interfaces at all > >> 2) network_interfaces="AUTO" > > These two are the same. > Okay. So, if my system has 4 interfaces: em0, iwn0, fwp0, wlan0 Does the above mean following? ifconfig_em0="AUTO" ifconfig_iwn0="AUTO" ifconfig_fwp0="AUTO" ifconfig_wlan0="AUTO" Also, if we say an interface is auto configured, it needs some sort of configuration to "auto-configure" it with, right? i.e. for em0 something like: ifconfig_em0="DHCP" Thanks, Hiren