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Date:      Fri, 19 Oct 2001 00:37:24 +0300
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr>
To:        Andrew Reid <andrew.reid@plug.cx>
Cc:        Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>, j balan <jbalan@proscouting.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Network Startup
Message-ID:  <20011019003724.C9820@hades.hell.gr>
In-Reply-To: <20011016140837.C12702@plug.cx>
References:  <200110152116.f9FLGsL51934@proscouting.com> <20011015162221.B8674@dan.emsphone.com> <20011016100105.D12238@plug.cx> <20011015212017.B73961@dan.emsphone.com> <20011016140837.C12702@plug.cx>

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[ No need to cross-post this to hackers guys and girls. ]

Andrew Reid <andrew.reid@plug.cx> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 09:20:17PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote:
> 
> > Of course, you can always run the equivalent commands yourself to get
> > the system in synch with what you put in rc.conf.  i.e. if you added an
> > alias ip to an interface, you can run 
> > 
> > ifconfig xxx inet 1.2.3.4 alias
> 
> Oh, for sure. That's what I, and the majority of the community, do
> now. I think that it's not particularly convenient if you want to
> restart the network if you've got 3 or 4 network interfaces.

	% more /etc/netstart
	...
	# This file is NOT called by any of the other scripts - it has been
	# obsoleted by /etc/rc.network and is provided here only for user
	# convenience (if you're sitting in single user mode and wish to start
	# the network by hand, this script will do it for you).

This will actually just run the proper rc.* scripts (including
rc.network).  But no need to do everything manually.

-giorgos


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