Configure networking outside rc.conf

[Eric W. Bates]

Giulio Ferro wrote:
> Chris Cowart wrote:
>> Assuming the NICs are displayed by ifconfig -a or inserted into
>> cloned_interfaces in /etc/rc.conf, you can create the following scripts:
>>
>> /etc/start_if.vlan100
>> /etc/stop_if.vlan100
>>
>> Where start_if.vlan100 is sourced by the netif start and stop_if.vlan100
>> is sourced by the netif stop.
>>
>> For example:
>>
>> | ccowart dev-aux etc $ cat /etc/start_if.vlan81
>> | ifconfig vlan81 vlan 81 vlandev em0
>> | ifconfig vlan81 inet 10.81.1.1/16
>>
>> I don't know that two files per interface is any cleaner than a really
>> long /etc/rc.conf (I usually prefer the latter, but I generally am not
>> dealing with more than 20-40 lines at most).
>>
>>   
> Thanks for the reply.
> What should be normally put in the stop_if.<iface> file? Do the "stop"
> files make sense?

You might, for example, have a dhcp server dedicated to that interface
which you wanted to start/stop as the interface goes up/down.

> Anyway I'll try to make it fit with what I need.
> 
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Eric W. Bates
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