From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 4 11: 4: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chen.org.nz (adsl-210.54.19.51.quicksilver.net.nz [210.54.19.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D276C37B405 for ; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 11:03:48 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by chen.org.nz (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g24J3ib77784; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 08:03:44 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 08:03:44 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: Peter Leftwich Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: after upgrade ifconfig_xl0_alias0 in rc.conf didn't work anymore Message-ID: <20020305080344.D77456@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <20020304180611.GA607@he0.easygolucky.de> <20020304132453.C73281-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020304132453.C73281-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net>; from Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com on Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 01:27:24PM -0500 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 Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 01:27:24PM -0500, Peter Leftwich wrote: > Manuel, I think I recently had the same issue, and [1] commenting out "^#" > a lot of ifconfig lines and [2] putting the DHCP line below both fixed the > problem. Hope this helps > > #ifconfig_lo0="inet 127.0.0.1" # default loopback device configuration. > ifconfig_xl0="DHCP" > #ifconfig_lo0_alias0="inet 127.0.0.254 netmask 0xffffffff" # Sample alias entry. > #ifconfig_ed0_ipx="ipx 0x00010010" # Sample IPX address family entry. It looks like you're modifying /etc/defaults/rc.conf instead of doing the changes in /etc/rc.conf (which is the recommended way). -- Jonathan Chen | To do is to be -- Nietzsche | To be is to do -- Sartre | Scooby do be do -- Scooby To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message