From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 7 22:53:54 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7ECB16A406 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2006 22:53:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ceri@submonkey.net) Received: from shrike.submonkey.net (cpc2-cdif2-0-0-cust107.cdif.cable.ntl.com [81.104.168.108]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CE9543D69 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2006 22:53:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ceri@submonkey.net) Received: from fenrirw.private.submonkey.net ([192.168.10.23]) by shrike.submonkey.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.61 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1FRzpn-000DiO-5a for hackers@FreeBSD.org; Fri, 07 Apr 2006 23:53:52 +0100 User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/11.2.3.060209 Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 23:53:42 +0100 From: Ceri Davies To: Message-ID: Thread-Topic: Using any network interface whatsoever Thread-Index: AcZalh3oXJ38CsaJEdqAMwAUUSJIlg== Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Using any network interface whatsoever X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 22:53:54 -0000 I'm trying to configure a bootable image to be used in various situations and on various (mostly unknown) hardware. For the filesystem I can use geom_label and /dev/ufs/UnlikelyString, but I'd also like to have it try to configure whatever interfaces the machine happens to have via DHCP. Other than specifying ifconfig_0="DHCP" once for every possible value of , is there a mechanism to do this already? Ceri -- That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all. -- Moliere