Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 20:36:40 -0400 From: Tom McLaughlin <tmclaugh@sdf.lonestar.org> To: Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@spqr.komquats.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Optional Wireless Interface Message-ID: <1178584600.1881.15.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <200705072210.l47MALmE009792@cwsys.cwsent.com> References: <200705072210.l47MALmE009792@cwsys.cwsent.com>
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On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 15:10 -0700, Cy Schubert wrote: > Before I embark on yet another mini project, is there an approach to > optionally configure an interface only if another interface has not been > configured? If for example rl0 is configured using DHCP ath0 would not be > configured. > > One idea I had was adding some sort of profile support to netif. rc.conf: # Network profiles: netprofile_enable="YES" netprofile_list="HomeWired HomeWifi" HomeWired_ifconfig_em0="DHCP" HomeWifi_ifconfig_iwi0="DHCP" With netprofile_enable set it would cycle through the profile list stopping with the first that succeeded. Additionally you could do `/etc/rc.d/netif action profile` to start up the interfaces associated with a particular profile. I wanted to do this since I have home wired and wifi and work wired and wifi I use my laptop with. I got distracted so I stopped looking at the idea. tom -- | tmclaugh at sdf.lonestar.org tmclaugh at FreeBSD.org | | FreeBSD http://www.FreeBSD.org | | BSD# http://www.mono-project.com/Mono:FreeBSD |
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