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From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
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Yannack <yannick_bre@yahoo.fr> wrote:
> > If
> >that results in the route you wish then you might be able to control the
> >start order with this in /etc/rc.conf:
> >
> >network_interfaces="lo0 an0 fxp0"
> >  
> >
> And this worked!!!! Hurray :) Thank you so much!
> How did you know this could do that??? I checked the man page, and it 
> really isn't appearant... or is it?

He read the source code.

The great thing about open source, no matter how badly documented a thing
is, you can always read the code.

That being said, open source software generally has better documentation
than closed source anyway.

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Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
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