From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 13 16:47:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA00990 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 13 Jan 1998 16:21:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA06919 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 1998 15:36:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA22423; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 21:01:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 21:01:41 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Stephen Cooper cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Network interfaces not configured at boot up in 2.2.5 In-Reply-To: <64B0BB03967ED111A34C00A0C93295001CE3@herculis.alphawest.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Stephen Cooper wrote: > I have just upgraded my laptop from 2.2.2 to 2.2.5, for some reason my > network interfaces no longer get configured at bootup. They are still > configured in /etc/rc.conf as they were under 2.2.2. > > Has the way in which rc.network configures network interfaces changed > under 2.2.5? The 2.2.5 rc.network script seems to be looking for a > specific interface startup script much the way Solaris does. > > Do I need to start with a fresh rc.conf perhaps ? Perhaps. I remember my rc.conf getting wiped when I upgraded to 2.2.5 from a 2.2-beta. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major