Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 11:33:25 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Modulok <modulok@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How to mark an interace as 'down' at boot time? Message-ID: <4BAF3075.4080209@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <64c038661003280151q7b6063bu7f88cfbff3c495d@mail.gmail.com> References: <64c038661003280151q7b6063bu7f88cfbff3c495d@mail.gmail.com>
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On 28/03/2010 09:51:50, Modulok wrote:
> Trivial question,
>
> Is there an rc.conf way to mark a network interface as being 'down' at
> boot time? I could do it with a cron job, or a kernel rebuild, but I
> thought there'd be some nifty rc.conf syntax. I tried this:
>
> ifconfig_bge0="down"
>
> The interface is marked as down in the dmesg output, but it's still up
> when the boot cycle completes.
Hmmm... normally, you'ld just leave any extra NICs unconfigured. Not
plugging a cable in generally makes the OS believe the NIC is down.
You can tell the OS the i/f shouldn't be configured by:
ifconfig_bge0="NOAUTO"
but that will probably still leave the i/f up if a cable is attached.
In this case, you could try using both of:
ifconfig_bge0="down"
ipv6_ifconfig_bge0="ifdisabled down"
(rc.conf syntax for IPv6 is different in CURRENT, but I assume you're
not using that.)
Cheers,
Matthew
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