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On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 03:57:42PM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 11:53:42PM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote:
> >=20
> > I'm trying to configure a bootable image to be used in various situatio=
ns
> > and on various (mostly unknown) hardware.
> >=20
> > For the filesystem I can use geom_label and /dev/ufs/UnlikelyString, bu=
t I'd
> > also like to have it try to configure whatever interfaces the machine
> > happens to have via DHCP.
> >=20
> > Other than specifying ifconfig_<if>0=3D"DHCP" once for every possible v=
alue of
> > <if>, is there a mechanism to do this already?
>=20
> ifconfig_DEFAULT

Superb, thank you!

> 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. :)

Good point, thanks again :)

Ceri
--=20
That must be wonderful!  I don't understand it at all.
                                                  -- Moliere

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