Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 08:03:44 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: after upgrade ifconfig_xl0_alias0 in rc.conf didn't work anymore Message-ID: <20020305080344.D77456@grimoire.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <20020304132453.C73281-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net>; from Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com on Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 01:27:24PM -0500 References: <20020304180611.GA607@he0.easygolucky.de> <20020304132453.C73281-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net>
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On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 01:27:24PM -0500, Peter Leftwich wrote:
> Manuel, I think I recently had the same issue, and [1] commenting out "^#"
> a lot of ifconfig lines and [2] putting the DHCP line below both fixed the
> problem. Hope this helps
>
> #ifconfig_lo0="inet 127.0.0.1" # default loopback device configuration.
> ifconfig_xl0="DHCP"
> #ifconfig_lo0_alias0="inet 127.0.0.254 netmask 0xffffffff" # Sample alias entry.
> #ifconfig_ed0_ipx="ipx 0x00010010" # Sample IPX address family entry.
It looks like you're modifying /etc/defaults/rc.conf instead of doing
the changes in /etc/rc.conf (which is the recommended way).
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