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Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 14:16:52 +0100
From: Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net>
To: Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc.network src/etc/defaults rc.conf
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On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 05:49:48AM -0700, Peter Wemm wrote:
> peter       1999/07/07 05:49:48 PDT
> 
>   Modified files:
>     etc                  rc.network 
>     etc/defaults         rc.conf 
>   Log:
>   Do away with ${network_interfaces} in rc.conf.  Just use `ifconfig -l` to
>   get a list of interfaces, and then automatically configure them if
>   ${ifconfig_${ifn}} or /etc/start_if.${ifn} exists.
>   
>   This makes it a lot easier to deal with machines that constantly change
>   their network configuration as you can leave ifconfig settings for all
>   the possible cards - just the ones that are present will be configured.
>   

Cunning :)

Joe
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