Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 14:48:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Christopher Shumway <cshumway@titan-project.org> To: Robert Small <robert@luftx.net> Cc: <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Question about loader.conf Message-ID: <20010814144627.H67521-100000@titan.titan-project.org> In-Reply-To: <3B798B07.C20FE135@luftx.net>
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On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Robert Small wrote: > Last night I had one of my servers down for hardware maintenance, and > before I turned it back over to the users, I decided to play with > /boot/loader.conf and my nics. I have two nics installed in the box, > one for internal network (dc0) and the other (xl0) for the Internet. I > put them in my loader.conf: > > # -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # > userconfig_script_load="YES" > autoboot_delay="5" # Delay in seconds before autobooting > miibus_load="YES" # miibus support, needed for some > drivers > if_dc_load="YES" # DEC/Intel 21143 and various > workalikes > if_xl_load="YES" # 3Com Etherlink XL (3c900, 3c905, > 3c905B) > > > Then I rebooted my box (4.4-Prelease) and when it came back up, I didn't > have any nics listed. I could initalize them with the ifconfig > statments and they would work ok, but not after a boot. > > What did I miss? I've been using FreeBSD for about 18 months now, and > was just trying to learn more about it. You probably needed to put network_interfaces="lo0 xl0 dc0" In /etc/rc.conf This will make sure the rc script /etc/rc.network will initilize them correctly. --- Christopher Shumway cshumway@titan-project.org cshumway@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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