Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 15:57:42 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using any network interface whatsoever Message-ID: <20060407225742.GA21619@odin.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <C05CAC06.C0BD%ceri@submonkey.net> References: <C05CAC06.C0BD%ceri@submonkey.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 11:53:42PM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote: > > I'm trying to configure a bootable image to be used in various situations > and on various (mostly unknown) hardware. > > For the filesystem I can use geom_label and /dev/ufs/UnlikelyString, but I'd > also like to have it try to configure whatever interfaces the machine > happens to have via DHCP. > > Other than specifying ifconfig_<if>0="DHCP" once for every possible value of > <if>, is there a mechanism to do this already? ifconfig_DEFAULT If you have non-Ethernet-like interfaces compiled in, you will probably want create empty "ifconfig_<if>" variables for them since DHCP won't work very well there. :) -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFENu5lXY6L6fI4GtQRAnRoAJ953eNH7U3hv8F87Y00KMNsaMkkOgCfQQW/ YhYOTne+EOuh2O5g9Ne4EKQ= =W3Fe -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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