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Date:      Tue, 13 Jan 2004 10:59:31 -0600
From:      Tillman Hodgson <tillman@seekingfire.com>
To:        FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: ngctl and rc.conf
Message-ID:  <20040113165931.GN66765@seekingfire.com>
In-Reply-To: <44u130lg73.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
References:  <20040112221218.GI66765@seekingfire.com> <44u130lg73.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>

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On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 09:45:20PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> Tillman Hodgson <tillman@seekingfire.com> writes:
> 
> > Howdy folks,
> > 
> > What's the best way to build ng_one2many interfaces into rc.conf such
> > that they're brought up (live) at the "normal" time so that:
> > 
> > 1) configuration remains centralized in rc.conf
> > 2) other pieces that depend on a network being present don't fail in
> >    enlightening ways?
> > 
> > I want to avoid the "make a shell script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d"
> > approach.
> 
> Nobody else has written this shell script for you, so you can't just
> configure it in rc.conf and turn it on.  If you want, you can add it
> to rc.network and submit the patches in a PR, so future upgrades will
> include it.  

I'll play around with it and see what I can come up with -- at first
blush it doesn't look difficult, just time-consuming to ensure that it
fails gracefully under misconfiguration.

-T


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