Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 10:58:34 +0000 From: Phil Taylor <phil@zipmail.co.uk> To: Hussein Kanji <extant@leland.stanford.edu> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Virtual hosting (probably a FAQ) Message-ID: <199512201103.LAA11313@wbsmail.zipmail.co.uk>
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> : in /etc/netstart there is a mechanism which allows this and is a bit
> : cleaner than rc.local, simply create a shell file called
> : /etc/start_if.{interface name} and it will be called at boot up !
>
> What did you name the start_if file? Something like /etc/start_if.ep0?
Yes, it will be called /etc/start_if.xxx
xxx being ed0/ed1/ep0/ep1/lnc0/lnc1 etc etc
If you are using a 3c509 (ep) the LINT file for 2.1R tells me this is a
BUGGY driver, maybe someone can point out what the bugs are :-(
>
> And what did you put in it? Could you email me the contents or tell me
> what is in it?
>
the /etc/start_if.edx file should have something like this :
#!/bin/sh
ifconfig edx alias xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask 0xffffffff
also, since I wrote that I have remembered that I also usually make
a change to /etc/netstart, this seems to be a bit of a bug in the
file, namely that it doesn't pull in the file correctly,(or maybe I
am doing something wrong !!!) after the lines :
# Set up all the network interfaces, calling startup scripts if needed
for ifn in ${network_interfaces};do
if [ -e
I had to change this (to get it to work) to
if [ -f
I'm not sure why (don't know what the -e flag is)
Also the interface is configured in the wrong order (or it seems to
be) you need to put the : eval ifconfig_args xxxxx line and the two
ifconfig ${ifn} lines BEFORE it pulls in the /etc/start_if.edx file
for that interface.
This seems to be because the interface aliases get over-written by
the standard configuration so you need to configure the aliases
AFTERWARDS.
This is probably not the best way to do this so I have copied this
message to hackers and I will see if anyone comes up with a better
suggestion.
Otherwise maybe my suggested changes could be put into /etc/netstart
as this is one of the first things that I do when I set up a new
FreeBSD machine.
I hope that this helps
Cheers
Phil Taylor
phil@zipmail.co.uk
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