rc.conf - setting interface UP without IP-address?

[Rein Kadastik]

Thanks, the answer was just too simple for me to figure it out by myself :)

Rein

Ewald Jenisch wrote:

>On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 02:41:45PM +0300, Rein Kadastik wrote:
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>>Excuse me for a silly question, but what the hell is UP? I know, what is 
>>IP, I know how ifconfig works, but wtf is UP?
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>UP is the state of the interface. You can set an IF up/down to
>enable/disable the IF. Current state of an interface can be seen with
>ifconfig, e.g.
>
>fxp0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>                 ^^
>
>Normally an interface is automatically taken up when you give it an
>IP-address.
>
>-ewald
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