Re: ifconfig in rc.conf network problems

From: Marco Beishuizen (marco_at_beishuizen.info)
Date: 05/31/04

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To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>

    On stardate Sun, 30 May 2004, the wise Warren Block entered:

    > On Sun, 30 May 2004, Marco Beishuizen wrote:
    >
    >> I used to have two ifconfig lines in my rc.conf:
    >> ifconfig_dc0="DHCP"
    >> ifconfig_dc0="media autoselect"
    >>
    >> The first to enable DHCP and the second to set my networkcard to 100BaseTX
    >> full duplex.
    >
    > Can rc.conf work that way? rc.conf is just a shell script, and you're
    > assigning values to variables, so the second declaration would overwrite the
    > first. As to why that would have worked for you... After dhclient runs
    > successfully once, some of the information is kept on disk (resolv.conf,
    > default route). Maybe it was enough?

    I don't know why but it did work. Now I put the media autoselect line in
    /etc/start_if.dc0 and that works.
    Thanks,

    Marco 

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