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Date:      Tue, 30 Nov 2004 00:03:29 +0100
From:      Yannack <yannick_bre@yahoo.fr>
To:        David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Multiple NICs
Message-ID:  <41ABAAC1.6030901@yahoo.fr>
In-Reply-To: <1713.207.111.173.106.1101766819.squirrel@webmail.dogbark.com>
References:  <41AB94C9.7040901@yahoo.fr> <1713.207.111.173.106.1101766819.squirrel@webmail.dogbark.com>

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>As you have discovered, the order of items listed in /etc/rc.conf doesn't
>matter. That is because one literally is setting values of variables
>there. Its some time later before those variables are actually used.
>
I am not sure I quite understood this part...

> If
>you wish to continue this direction you might kill your dhclient process
>which is running on fxp0 then manually start it again "dhclient fxp0".
>
However this is exactly what I was looking for.

> 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?
Anyways thank you so much !



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