set of ethernet adress on boot

[RCW]

Yes, that is possible.  You need to put a file with the following name in
/etc:  start_if.<ifname>

If you do a quick / in vi after loading rc.network, you'll see that
it looks for such a file during the initialization of the interfaces.

hope this helps
r
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2003 13:30:10 -0500
From: Dan Nelson <dnelson at allantgroup.com>
Subject: Re: set of ethernet adress on boot
To: Adam Maas <mykroft at explosive.mail.net>
Cc: questions at freebsd.org
Message-ID: <20030607183010.GA25585 at dan.emsphone.com>
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In the last episode (Jun 07), Adam Maas said:
> > > +-- Moritz Fromwald [freebsd] [06-06-03 20:32 +0200]:
> > > | Is it possible to set the ethernet adress automatically at boot
time
> > > before | dhclient attempts to contact a DHCP? | thx & regards | |
> > > moritz fromwald
> > >  yes. btw, why r u running dhclient if u r using static
> > >  ip?
> >