Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 11:02:45 +0200 From: Ewald Jenisch <a@jenisch.at> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: rc.conf - setting interface UP without IP-address? Message-ID: <20050831090245.GA3534@aurora.oekb.co.at>
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Hi, I'm looking for a way to set an interface UP using /etc/rc.conf without giving the interface an IP-address (i.e. neither static nor DHCP) Background: The machine in question has three Ethernet-IFs - one connects to the LAN (and has an IP-address) the other two are used for monitoring traffic via ethereal only. For security reasons I don't want to assign IP-addresses to the two "ethereal-only" interfaces - but I need them "UP". Sure enough I can "up" these interfaces manually but I want them up at boot-time. I've tried with entries like e.g. ifconfig_fxp1="" ifconfig_fxp1="UP" in my /etc/rc.conf - none of these work. So what should I configure in /etc/rc.conf in order to get the interfaces UP? BTW - ethereal only recognizes interfaces that are in the "UP" state. Thanks much in advance for any clue, -ewald
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