Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 18:00:53 -0400 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: Ruben van Staveren <ruben@verweg.com> Cc: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Do you use a value other than AUTO for network_interfaces? Message-ID: <18981.41237.246524.796@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <EA04BF4C-AE45-4624-9C1B-152FC26405C4@verweg.com> References: <EA04BF4C-AE45-4624-9C1B-152FC26405C4@verweg.com>
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Ruben van Staveren writes: > > Up till Sunday in 8-current, and for a long time in general > > network.subr (part of the rc.d system) has emitted a warning that > > values of network_interfaces other than AUTO are deprecated. I removed > > that warning in HEAD Sunday, and there is no a discussion about > > whether or not it should be put back, and whether or not there is any > > need for the user to specify the list of network interfaces at all. > > Well, I do. > > I only want to configure only the interfaces that are connected and > that I know about. What he said. In my case complicated by the fact the interfaces in question do some wierd-ass initialization (which is legacy from like sometime in 5.x and might be unnecessary ... but it took a long time to get working and isn't broke). Robert Huff
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