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Cc: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org,
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Subject: Re: Do you use a value other than AUTO for
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Ruben van Staveren writes:

>  > Up till Sunday in 8-current, and for a long time in general
>  > network.subr (part of the rc.d system) has emitted a warning that
>  > values of network_interfaces other than AUTO are deprecated. I removed
>  > that warning in HEAD Sunday, and there is no a discussion about
>  > whether or not it should be put back, and whether or not there is any
>  > need for the user to specify the list of network interfaces at all.
>  
>  Well, I do.
>  
>  I only want to configure only the interfaces that are connected and  
>  that I know about.

	What he said.  In my case complicated by the fact the
interfaces in question do some wierd-ass initialization (which is
legacy from like sometime in 5.x and might be unnecessary ... but it
took a long time to get working and isn't broke).


				Robert Huff