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Date:      Wed, 22 Sep 1999 11:15:19 +0800
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
To:        "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
Cc:        Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/ifconfig ifconfig.c 
Message-ID:  <19990922031519.1BA861CA7@overcee.netplex.com.au>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 22 Sep 1999 12:06:50 %2B0900." <37E847CA.184980A0@newsguy.com> 

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"Daniel C. Sobral" wrote:
> Mike Smith wrote:
> > 
> > msmith      1999/09/20 00:58:08 PDT
> > 
> >   Modified files:
> >     sbin/ifconfig        ifconfig.c
> >   Log:
> ...
> > 
> >   With the renaming of the PCI ethernet driver modules and the addition
> >   of appropriate miibus dependancies on those modules that need it, it is
> >   now no longer necessary to compile many ethernet drivers into the kernel;
> >   they will be loaded on demand the first time they are ifconfig'ed.
> 
> The network card drivers can now be removed from
> defaults/loader.conf, right? Mmmm... on a second thought, security
> level 2+ would prevent them from being loaded, right? Then there
> might be a case for preloading them, though this might be done at
> rc.local.

Also note that you'll have to explicitly list them in network_interfaces
in order to force them to be loaded as the default scan won't configure them
if they aren't already there...

Cheers,
-Peter
--
Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au



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