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Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 15:57:42 -0700
From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net>
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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 situations
> and on various (mostly unknown) hardware.
>=20
> For the filesystem I can use geom_label and /dev/ufs/UnlikelyString, but =
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 val=
ue of
> <if>, is there a mechanism to do this already?

ifconfig_DEFAULT

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. :)

-- Brooks

--=20
Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE.
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