From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 16 2:43: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from straylight.ringlet.net (straylight.ringlet.net [217.75.134.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8D49C37B411 for ; Tue, 16 Oct 2001 02:42:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 6003 invoked by uid 1000); 16 Oct 2001 09:42:20 -0000 Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 12:42:20 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev To: Andrew Reid Cc: Dan Nelson , j balan , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Network Startup Message-ID: <20011016124220.A727@straylight.oblivion.bg> Mail-Followup-To: Andrew Reid , Dan Nelson , j balan , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200110152116.f9FLGsL51934@proscouting.com> <20011015162221.B8674@dan.emsphone.com> <20011016100105.D12238@plug.cx> <20011015212017.B73961@dan.emsphone.com> <20011016140837.C12702@plug.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011016140837.C12702@plug.cx>; from andrew.reid@plug.cx on Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 02:08:38PM +0930 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- Hey, out there - is it *you* reading me, or is it someone else? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message