From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 5 13: 4:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chain.freebsd.os.org.za (chain.freebsd.os.org.za [196.7.74.174]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2848815037 for ; Sat, 5 Jun 1999 13:04:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from khetan@chain.freebsd.os.org.za) X-Disclaimer: Contents of this e-mail are the writer's opinion X-Disclaimer2: and may not be quoted, re-produced or forwarded X-Disclaimer3: (in part or whole) without the author's permission. Received: from localhost (khetan@localhost) by chain.freebsd.os.org.za (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA97882; Sat, 5 Jun 1999 22:03:43 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from khetan@chain.freebsd.os.org.za) Date: Sat, 5 Jun 1999 22:03:42 +0200 (SAST) From: Khetan Gajjar Reply-To: Khetan Gajjar To: Dennis Ostrovsky Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: getting rc.network to start an interface In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-Mobile: +27 82 9907663 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Around Today, "Dennis Ostrovsky" wrote : DO> Ever since I upgraded to 3.x I've had this minor nagging problem of DO> rc.network not starting my DHCP client. It worked fine in 2.2.x. I have DO> the start_if file in the /etc directory, but it is never executed on DO> bootup. DO> DO> iridium# ll start_if.fxp0 DO> -rwx------ 1 root wheel 38 Sep 11 1998 start_if.fxp0 Well, the file doesn't need to be executable. Also, do you have fxp0 in your rc.conf ? I use this for tun0, so I've got 1149=[root@chain] /etc# ls -al start_if.tun0 + ls -al start_if.tun0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 152 Oct 23 1998 start_if.tun0 1150=[root@chain] /etc# grep tun0 /etc/rc.conf + grep tun0 /etc/rc.conf network_interfaces="ed0 tun0 lo0" ifconfig_tun0= --- Khetan Gajjar (!kg1779) * khetan@os.org.za http://khetan.os.org.za/ * Talk/Finger khetan@khetan.os.org.za FreeBSD enthusiast * http://www2.za.freebsd.org/ Overflow on /dev/null, please empty the bit bucket. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message