From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 8 15:24:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chmls06.mediaone.net (chmls06.mediaone.net [24.147.1.144]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F414437B407; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 15:24:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from acadia.ne.mediaone.net (acadia.ne.mediaone.net [65.96.185.189]) by chmls06.mediaone.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f98MOSh06841; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 18:24:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from leblanc@localhost) by acadia.ne.mediaone.net (8.11.6/8.11.5) id f98MO4O02048; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 18:24:04 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from leblanc) Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 18:24:04 -0400 From: Louis LeBlanc To: questions@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: dhclient/ifconfig questions. Message-ID: <20011008182403.A589@acadia.ne.mediaone.net> Reply-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Mail-Followup-To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org References: <20011008150351.A1543@acadia.ne.mediaone.net> <200110082031.f98KV6725259@mikko.rsa.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <200110082031.f98KV6725259@mikko.rsa.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i X-bright-idea: Lets abolish HTML mail! Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 10/08/01 01:31 PM, Mikko Tyolajarvi sat at the `puter and typed: > [...] > > As you have already guessed, you can't mix "DHCP" with ifconfig flags. > Set ifconfig_xl0 to "DHCP" and put any commands you need executed > first in a file called "/etc/start_if.xl0" (in your case that would be > "ifconfig xl0 ether ..." i guess). > > Don't know if your X problems are related, though. You hit it right on. I don't know just what the X problems were, but it wasn't just X, vim wouldn't work either. I still think my bogus config managed to dump the startup process early. The start_if.xl0 worked great! Now when I get my kinks worked out, I'll get that re-provisioned. Thanks again! Lou -- Louis LeBlanc leblanc@acadia.ne.mediaone.net Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) http://acadia.ne.mediaone.net ԿԬ Mark's Dental-Chair Discovery: Dentists are incapable of asking questions that require a simple yes or no answer. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message