Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 19:45:59 -0600 From: Jonathan Horne <freebsd@dfwlp.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: run a command on startup Message-ID: <200701261945.59523.freebsd@dfwlp.com> In-Reply-To: <1d3ed48c0701261445m5d8612adn9b72ad5b8a1987d6@mail.gmail.com> References: <200701261636.37517.freebsd@dfwlp.com> <1d3ed48c0701261445m5d8612adn9b72ad5b8a1987d6@mail.gmail.com>
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On Friday 26 January 2007 16:45, Kevin Downey wrote:
> On 1/26/07, Jonathan Horne <freebsd@dfwlp.com> wrote:
> > i have a box that my nic's eeprom got zapped last night. WOL is a must
> > for me, and as a last ditch, i finally have the card talking again if i
> > set a mac address manually. upon shutdown, apparently it remember the
> > address i set, and answers to a WOL packet. also, it appears to
> > immediately forget the mac that was set when the computer starts, because
> > when i get back to the login, the ifconfig shows the mac to be
> > 00:00:00:00:00:00 again, and i have to 'ifconfig fxp0 ether [mad
> > address]' after each boot.
> >
> > where can i stick that command so its run during boot up, maybe
> > preferable before the network configuration is loaded?
> >
> > strangely enough, even when the mac address is 00's, i can still ping
> > around my lan (i didnt think this was possible without a mac address)
> >
> > thanks,
> > jonathan
>
> you can put "ether [mac address]" in fxp0's ifconfig line in /etc/rc.conf
> ifconfig_fxp0="ether [mac address]"
well, unfortunately, that didnt work.
# -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Mon Jan 22 15:32:44 2007
# Created: Mon Jan 22 15:32:44 2007
# Enable network daemons for user convenience.
# Please make all changes to this file, not to /etc/defaults/rc.conf.
# This file now contains just the overrides from /etc/defaults/rc.conf.
defaultrouter="192.168.125.1"
hostname="pollux.dfwlp.com"
ifconfig_fxp0="ether 00:09:6b:b6:3e:d9"
ifconfig_fxp0="inet 192.168.125.71 netmask 255.255.255.128"
inetd_enable="YES"
sshd_enable="YES"
usbd_enable="YES"
pollux# ifconfig fxp0
fxp0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
options=8<VLAN_MTU>
inet 192.168.125.71 netmask 0xffffff80 broadcast 192.168.125.127
ether 00:00:00:00:00:00
media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
status: active
is there another way to skin this cat?
thanks,
jonathan
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