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Date:      26 Nov 2005 10:08:32 -0500
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To:        Mark Jayson Alvarez <jay2xra@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: proper way to create network devices at boot time.
Message-ID:  <448xvbqwen.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
In-Reply-To: <20051125011009.47752.qmail@web51609.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20051125011009.47752.qmail@web51609.mail.yahoo.com>

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Mark Jayson Alvarez <jay2xra@yahoo.com> writes:

>  How do you create a network device at boot time? I need to set up my carp devices at boot time. in Openbsd, it can be set in /etc/hostname.if like this.
>   
> /etc/hostname.carp1
>     inet 172.16.0.100 255.255.255.0 172.16.0.255 vhid 1 carpdev em0 \
>      pass lanpasswd  Thanks.

On recent FreeBSD, the devices should be created automatically if the
hardware they support is present.  What device exactly are you trying
to create?



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