ifconfig won't allow me to change ether address and inet address in the same command

[Eduardo Meyer]

On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 6:40 PM, Christopher Cowart
<ccowart at rescomp.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> Eduardo Meyer wrote:
>> # ifconfig rl0 inet 192.168.2.12 netmask 255.255.255.0
>> # ifconfig rl0 ether 00:02:4f:0a:ce:f3
>>
>> I ask you some help, how can I accomplish both tasks with rc_ng? In
>> /etc/rc.conf
>
> Somebody might have a hint for a single ifconfig command, but you can
> also create the file /etc/start_if.rl0 with any additional commands to
> be run by rc. This will get sourced automatically by rc _before_ the
> value of ifconfig_rl0 in /etc/rc.conf.
>
> For example, in /etc/rc.conf, leave
>
> | ifconfig_rl0="inet 192.168.2.12 netmask 255.255.255.0"
>
> And in /etc/start_if.rl0, add:
>
> | ifconfig rl0 ether 00:02:4f:0a:ce:f3
>
> --
> Chris Cowart
> Network Technical Lead
> Network & Infrastructure Services, RSSP-IT
> UC Berkeley
>

Thank you Chris, I didnt know about /etc/start_if.<if>, would do for
me, however I will use ip4_addrs_if to keep things in rc.conf :) Thank
you :-)



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