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From: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com>
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Subject: Re: /etc/rc.network problems/questions
To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 08:10:20 -0600 (CST)
Cc: tim@futuresouth.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980219154021.658U-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> from Doug White at "Feb 19, 98 03:40:33 pm"
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In a previous message, Doug White said:
> On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Tim Tsai wrote:
> 
> > in /etc/rc.network we have these lines:
> > 
> > for ifn in ${network_interfaces}; do
> > 	if [ -e /etc/start_if.${ifn} ]; then
> > 		. /etc/start_if.${ifn} ${ifn}
> > 	fi
> > 
> > but to my best knowlege, the "." builtin doesn't take parameters.
> > 
> > Why am I missing?
> > 
> > if I create a start_if.fxp0 file, for example, that looks like this:
> > 
> > ifconfig $1 inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.255 alias
> > 
> > the $1 expands to nothing.
> > 
> > What am I missing?  Is everybody else hardcoding the interface name into
> > start_if.ifn?
> 
> ifconfig lines tend to be system-specific, so why would you bother?

I use it for dhcp client. It works slick.

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