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Date:      12 Jan 2004 21:45:20 -0500
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To:        Tillman Hodgson <tillman@seekingfire.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: ngctl and rc.conf
Message-ID:  <44u130lg73.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
In-Reply-To: <20040112221218.GI66765@seekingfire.com>
References:  <20040112221218.GI66765@seekingfire.com>

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Tillman Hodgson <tillman@seekingfire.com> writes:

> Howdy folks,
> 
> What's the best way to build ng_one2many interfaces into rc.conf such
> that they're brought up (live) at the "normal" time so that:
> 
> 1) configuration remains centralized in rc.conf
> 2) other pieces that depend on a network being present don't fail in
>    enlightening ways?
> 
> I want to avoid the "make a shell script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d"
> approach.

Nobody else has written this shell script for you, so you can't just
configure it in rc.conf and turn it on.  If you want, you can add it
to rc.network and submit the patches in a PR, so future upgrades will
include it.  

-- 
Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area: 
		resume/CV at http://be-well.ilk.org:8088/~lowell/resume/
		username/password "public"



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