From owner-cvs-all Thu Jul 8 12:20:23 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from dt054n86.san.rr.com (dt054n86.san.rr.com [24.30.152.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90C0214F3D; Thu, 8 Jul 1999 12:20:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by dt054n86.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA27363; Thu, 8 Jul 1999 12:20:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 12:20:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug X-Sender: doug@dt054n86.san.rr.com To: Peter Wemm Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc.network src/etc/defaults rc.conf In-Reply-To: <199907071249.FAA31634@freefall.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, 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. I realized that this has already been backed out, but I did want to mention another case where trying to config all interfaces automatically is bad. Namely with DHCP I want to control precisely which interfaces are confgured when and how, which would be very difficult with this approach. The "auto" option is an excellent compromise, and I agree with the previous poster who said that the idea is very clever in conception. :) Regards, Doug -- On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. -- Will Rogers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message