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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: Jonathan Fortin <jonf@revelex.com>
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Subject: Re: sysctl/ioctl. 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 16 Jan 2000 19:01:10 EST."
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On Sun, 16 Jan 2000 19:01:10 EST, Jonathan Fortin wrote:

> I was wondering how can i make my ethernet card shutdown when its
> reiceiving lots of packets, and put my ethernet card backup after 10
> minutes?

Using the ifconfig(8) and at(1) commands.  For example,

	ifconfig ed0 down
	echo ifconfig ed0 up | at now + 10 minutes

In future, please post questions like this (general usage questions) to
the freebsd-questions mailing list.

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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