Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 09:16:41 -0400 From: "Eric W. Bates" <ericx@ericx.net> To: Giulio Ferro <auryn@zirakzigil.org>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Configure networking outside rc.conf Message-ID: <4A02DF39.7040902@ericx.net> In-Reply-To: <4A01943F.6000400@zirakzigil.org> References: <4A00BE6C.5030800@zirakzigil.org> <20090505225425.GA49013@hal.rescomp.berkeley.edu> <4A01943F.6000400@zirakzigil.org>
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Giulio Ferro wrote: > Chris Cowart wrote: >> Assuming the NICs are displayed by ifconfig -a or inserted into >> cloned_interfaces in /etc/rc.conf, you can create the following scripts: >> >> /etc/start_if.vlan100 >> /etc/stop_if.vlan100 >> >> Where start_if.vlan100 is sourced by the netif start and stop_if.vlan100 >> is sourced by the netif stop. >> >> For example: >> >> | ccowart dev-aux etc $ cat /etc/start_if.vlan81 >> | ifconfig vlan81 vlan 81 vlandev em0 >> | ifconfig vlan81 inet 10.81.1.1/16 >> >> I don't know that two files per interface is any cleaner than a really >> long /etc/rc.conf (I usually prefer the latter, but I generally am not >> dealing with more than 20-40 lines at most). >> >> > Thanks for the reply. > What should be normally put in the stop_if.<iface> file? Do the "stop" > files make sense? You might, for example, have a dhcp server dedicated to that interface which you wanted to start/stop as the interface goes up/down. > Anyway I'll try to make it fit with what I need. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Eric W. Bates ericx@vineyard.net
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