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Date:      Wed, 31 Dec 2014 10:34:28 -0800
From:      Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>
To:        Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Ryan Kois <ryan.kois@gmail.com>, re@freebsd.org, Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>, Claudia Yadathi <yadathi@gmail.com>, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to make a FreeBSD vm in virtualbox.
Message-ID:  <54AD08E1-588F-4FFC-9F30-5EBF524A7045@gmail.com>
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On Dec 31, 2014, at 8:15, Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 08:48:01AM -0700, Warren Block wrote:
>> On Wed, 31 Dec 2014, Glen Barber wrote:
>>> On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 10:04:38PM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>>>>>=20
>>>>> I think 'ifconfig_DEFAULT=3D"DHCP"' in rc.conf(5) is what you =
want.
>>>>=20
>>>> Do we want this by default in all images?  (I would vote yes).
>>>>=20
>>>=20
>>> I'd actually argue 'no.'  As a sysadmin, I don't want any system =
doing
>>> anything I don't expect it to do, virtual machine or not.
>>=20
>> It can have security implications.  And I've never tested what =
happens when
>> there is more than one interface.  First one wins, probably.
>>=20
>> How about adding it to rc.conf, but commented?
>>=20
>=20
> I think this would be the least objectionable solution, with a note in
> motd mentioning how to enable networking.

Why not do what a lot of OSes do and give folks a dialog that says,

=93I saw you haven=92t setup networking =97 do you want to do so now?=94

It=92s already in bsdinstall=85 moving it into the boot process earlier =
on seems like an acceptable thing to do.

Thanks!

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