Date: Tue, 07 May 1996 13:05:40 -0600 From: Gary Aitken <garya@ics.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: netstart & network interface startup scripts Message-ID: <318F9F04.1388@ics.com>
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In 2.1, /etc/netstart contains the following code to configure the
network interfaces:
# Set up all the network interfaces, calling startup scripts if needed
for ifn in ${network_interfaces}; do
if [ -e /etc/start_if.${ifn} ]; then
. /etc/start_if.${ifn} ${ifn}
fi
eval ifconfig_args=\$ifconfig_${ifn}
ifconfig ${ifn} ${ifconfig_args}
ifconfig ${ifn}
done
Why are the interface specific scripts run *before* the interfaces
are actually configured? I would have thought they should be run
afterwards.
for example, I need to do the following at startup:
ifconfig de0 inet 206.230.42.65 netmask 255.255.255.224
ifconfig de0 inet 206.230.42.69 alias
The first can be taken care of with the normal ifconfig_de0="..."
line in sysconfig. The second could be done by supplying
an /etc/start_if.de0 script, but in that case both lines
would need to be put there and no ifconfig_de0 line would
be in sysconfig (which makes the comments in sysconfig a
bit misleading).
Is the intent that the presence of /etc/start_if.xxx means
there should be no ifconfig_xxx line in sysconfig?
--
Gary Aitken garya@ics.com (business)
garya@dreamchaser.org (personal)
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