Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 11:12:38 +0200 (CEST) From: Marco Beishuizen <marco@beishuizen.info> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: FreeBSD questions mailing list <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ifconfig in rc.conf network problems Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.60.0405311110590.29310@yokozuna.bsd> In-Reply-To: <20040530155610.B72548@wonkity.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.60.0405302144360.29310@yokozuna.bsd> <20040530155610.B72548@wonkity.com>
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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 -- Vote for ME -- I'm well-tapered, half-cocked, ill-conceived and TAX-DEFERRED!
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