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Date:      Tue, 16 Oct 2001 12:42:20 +0300
From:      Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>
To:        Andrew Reid <andrew.reid@plug.cx>
Cc:        Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>, j balan <jbalan@proscouting.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Network Startup
Message-ID:  <20011016124220.A727@straylight.oblivion.bg>
In-Reply-To: <20011016140837.C12702@plug.cx>; from andrew.reid@plug.cx on Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 02:08:38PM %2B0930
References:  <200110152116.f9FLGsL51934@proscouting.com> <20011015162221.B8674@dan.emsphone.com> <20011016100105.D12238@plug.cx> <20011015212017.B73961@dan.emsphone.com> <20011016140837.C12702@plug.cx>

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On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 02:08:38PM +0930, Andrew Reid wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 09:20:17PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote:
> 
> > > That's a bit of a problem as far as I'm concerned. Perhaps the network
> > > scripts should be redesigned in a similar manner to the one taken on be
> > > RedHat.
> > 
> > Of course, you can always run the equivalent commands yourself to get
> > the system in synch with what you put in rc.conf.  i.e. if you added an
> > alias ip to an interface, you can run 
> > 
> > ifconfig xxx inet 1.2.3.4 alias
> 
> Oh, for sure. That's what I, and the majority of the community, do
> now. I think that it's not particularly convenient if you want to
> restart the network if you've got 3 or 4 network interfaces.

Are you aware of the existence of /etc/netstart?  I wasn't, until
very recently :)

G'luck,
Peter

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