From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 18 16:41:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6ED8F37B408 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 16:41:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a125.otenet.gr [212.205.215.125]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.11.5/8.11.5) with ESMTP id f9INfOO19921; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 02:41:25 +0300 (EEST) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f9ILbOJ10635; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 00:37:24 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from charon@labs.gr) Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 00:37:24 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Andrew Reid Cc: Dan Nelson , j balan , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Network Startup Message-ID: <20011019003724.C9820@hades.hell.gr> 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 In-Reply-To: <20011016140837.C12702@plug.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i X-GPG-Fingerprint: C1EB 0653 DB8B A557 3829 00F9 D60F 941A 3186 03B6 X-URL: http://labs.gr/~charon/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [ No need to cross-post this to hackers guys and girls. ] Andrew Reid wrote: > On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 09:20:17PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > > > 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. % more /etc/netstart ... # This file is NOT called by any of the other scripts - it has been # obsoleted by /etc/rc.network and is provided here only for user # convenience (if you're sitting in single user mode and wish to start # the network by hand, this script will do it for you). This will actually just run the proper rc.* scripts (including rc.network). But no need to do everything manually. -giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message