Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 07:11:27 -0500 From: Thomas David Rivers <ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com> To: uriah.heep.sax.de!joerg_wunsch@dg-rtp.dg.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Another problem with sysinstall with SL/IP. Message-ID: <199601171211.HAA23899@lakes>
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> > > > However, I just noticed in the sysinstall generated /etc/sysconfig, > > it produced: > > > > network_interfaces="cuaa0 lo0" > > ifconfig_cuaa0="inet ..." > > > > > > which, of course, doesn't work - these should be: > > > > network_interfaces="sl0 lo0" > > ifconfig_slo="inet ..." > > No, it must be > > network_interfaces="lo0" > > sl0 cannot be initialized at boot time, since the initialization can > only be done after slattach has turned the port into something that > can speak IP. This case is not handled by the current /etc/rc and > /etc/sysconfig scheme (and i doubt somebody could come up with a true > generic method to do it). > > -- > cheers, J"org > I know this is ancient news, but I'm behind again. Anyway, I'd like to consider the following scenario: 1) slattach 2) ifconfig 3) modem goes down 4) restart slattach to reconnect does that mean I have to re-ifconfig the sl0 device after slattach restabilishes the line? I don't think so... Thus, there is a state in which no slattach is running, and the ifconfig on sl0 is valid. What that says to me is that you can, in fact, ifconfig sl0 before doing a slattach. I've been doing it for a few years now with great success. This way, I can ifconfig the sl0 device in /etc/rc, assigning its IP address there - and the network isn't available until someone does the slattach. This is really handy.. In fact, I've changed my /etc/rc to do exactly what I implied in the original note: > > network_interfaces="sl0 lo0" > > ifconfig_slo="inet ..." it appears to be working just fine (as it always has.) [although, there is some route weirdness that got introduced in 2.1] - Dave Rivers -
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