From owner-freebsd-mobile Sat Jul 7 13: 6:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from moek.pir.net (moek.pir.net [130.64.1.215]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0806037B406 for ; Sat, 7 Jul 2001 13:06:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pir@pir.net) Received: from pir by moek.pir.net with local (Exim) id 15IyL9-0007Y2-00 for freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 07 Jul 2001 16:06:07 -0400 Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 16:06:07 -0400 From: Peter Radcliffe To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ifconfig wireless card options and DHCP Message-ID: <20010707160606.B27611@pir.net> Reply-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010707151139.A27611@pir.net> <200107071932.f67JWSk27648@bunrab.catwhisker.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200107071932.f67JWSk27648@bunrab.catwhisker.org>; from david@catwhisker.org on Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 12:32:28PM -0700 X-fish: < X-Copy-On-Listmail: Please do NOT Cc: me on list mail. Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org David Wolfskill probably said: > * Have you looked at /etc/start_if.* & /etc/stop_if.*? Yes, I don't feel they are appropriate to what I'm doing for a number of reasons and also I don't want a million files, two for each interface (and I use _lots_ of interfaces at different times on my laptop), filling up /etc and not having access to the more generalised configuration information that is elsewhere (rc.conf*). > * First, consider that we're discussing this on -mobile -- implying > that a reasonable approach should probably handle a case where the > machine in question moves from one environment to another. I've have personally dealt with that case by putting site specific information into /etc/rc.conf.local. I don't hardcode things like this and the reason I want this change is to more easily allow me to deal with various interfaces in various different networks in a coherent way. > But in any case, I confess I'm not very enthusiastic about a way to > hard-code parameters. If I just wanted to hardcode the information I'd put it into /etc/pccard.conf. I don't, I want it eaily changable. This is trivially changable based on location and I have a couple of small scripts to do so. > So my approach was closer to the 2nd of the above alternatives: I > wrote a (Perl) script that uses a couple of files, one containing > information about different kinds of interfaces & how to specify I do similar things, but they are sh scripts and don't fill /etc up as much. > What I wrote up about the stuff is at > http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/FreeBSD; feel free to take a look.... I've looked at your stuff before. Two files in /etc for each network interface ? No thanks. > (And I recall having heard a desire for pccard_ether to go away....) It's there now, the change doesn't break existing functionality and adds lots of functionality. P. -- pir pir@pir.net pir@net.tufts.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message