From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 10 3:32:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lexx.zssm.zp.ua (lexx.zssm.zp.ua [212.8.32.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4373A37B40D for ; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 03:32:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from server.hermes-comp.zp.ua (germes-comp.zssm.zp.ua [212.8.32.132] (may be forged)) by lexx.zssm.zp.ua (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id NAA16634; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 13:22:28 +0300 (EET DST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by server.hermes-comp.zp.ua (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC8A938302; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 13:18:29 +0300 (EEST) Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 13:18:29 +0300 (EEST) From: Alexander V Zubchenko To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: Subject: Re: ifconfig: How to assign address without bringing iface up In-Reply-To: <52561.1023703476@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> Message-ID: <20020610131332.L84017-100000@server.hermes-comp.zp.ua> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Greetings! On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > Hi folks, > > Is there some ifconfig(8) trick I'm missing that will allow me to assign > an address and some aliases to an interface without bringing the > interface up? Sorry, but, AFAIC in man-pages for ifconfig(8) and netintro(4) with assignment of an address to interface it will b auto-up'ed. And this behavior is hard-coded into system. > > I'm working on a redundant firewall system for a customer and if I can't > get this right with ifconfig(8), I'm in for a bit of messy scripting. > > Ciao, > Sheldon. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > Alexander To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message