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From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: Limiting the number of probed interfaces?
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On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 08:49:40AM -0400, Michael Proto wrote:
> Would the following in /boot/device.hints achieve what you are after?
> 
> hint.bge.1.disabled="1"
> hint.bge.2.disabled="1"
> ...

You can put these in /boot/loader.conf, thus leaving /boot/device.hints
alone; one less file to deal with during mergemaster...

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