From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 19 14:03:33 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80F3D16A4CE for ; Thu, 19 Feb 2004 14:03:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from out008.verizon.net (out008pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.108]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AE6943D1F for ; Thu, 19 Feb 2004 14:03:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com ([68.160.202.196]) by out008.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.06 201-253-122-130-106-20030910) with ESMTP id <20040219220332.UUCK10003.out008.verizon.net@mac.com>; Thu, 19 Feb 2004 16:03:32 -0600 Message-ID: <40353293.70209@mac.com> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 17:02:59 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Goodman References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out008.verizon.net from [68.160.202.196] at Thu, 19 Feb 2004 16:03:32 -0600 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.ORG Subject: Re: start interface without IP address in rc.conf X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 22:03:33 -0000 Michael Goodman wrote: > How do you start an interface in rc.conf without and IP address? > Thanks. If you don't provide an ifconfig entry for the interface in /etc/rc.conf, it will not be configured with an IP address. If you meant, "How do you automaticly configure a network interface using a DHCP server?" :-), try: ifconfig_fxp0="DHCP" -- -Chuck