Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 15:45:39 -0600 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> To: matt <matt@BabCom.ORG> Cc: FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Help with ifconfig Message-ID: <19991111154539.A393@futuresouth.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.20.9911111535320.1508-100000@s01.arpa-canada.net> References: <19991111142009.Y393@futuresouth.com> <Pine.BSF.4.20.9911111535320.1508-100000@s01.arpa-canada.net>
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On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 03:38:21PM -0500, a little birdie told me
that matt remarked
> On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> [...]
> : This becomes ungodly ugly when you have 3 or 4 C's. Better to use an
> : external script. And do you REALLY want a /24 netmask on all of them??
>
> I made a script called /etc/rc.ifconfig, I suppose this should be
> /usr/local/etc for technical correctness, but it works nicer than
> the ifconfig_ed0_aliasX types in /etc/rc.conf, I make rc.local call
> rc.ifconfig- This is what it looks like:
Actually, you should call it from rc.network; things like Apache need to
be started *AFTER* you ifconfig the aliases, or it won't bind() to them.
And if you look, rc.network already has provisions for this:
# Set up all the network interfaces, calling startup scripts if needed
for ifn in ${network_interfaces}; do
if [ -e /etc/start_if.${ifn} ]; then
. /etc/start_if.${ifn}
fi
So just rename the script to /etc/start_if.ed0 and don't worry 'bout it
:)
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