Use of network_interfaces in rc.conf

[hiren panchasara]

Can someone please help? :-)
On Mar 12, 2012 9:04 AM, "hiren panchasara" <hiren.panchasara at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Looking at man rc.conf,
>
>      network_interfaces
>                  (str) Set to the list of network interfaces to configure
> on
>                  this host or “AUTO” (the default) for all current
> interfaces.
>                  Setting the network_interfaces variable to anything other
>                  than the default is deprecated.  Interfaces that the
> adminis‐
>                  trator wishes to store configuration for, but not start at
>                  boot should be configured with the “NOAUTO” keyword in
> their
>                  ifconfig_⟨interface⟩ variables as described below.
>
> For example, in my rc.conf I have
>
> ifconfig_em0="dhcp"
>
> What difference does it make when I have each (separately) in my rc.conf:
>
> 1) no network_interfaces at all
> 2) network_interfaces="AUTO"
> 3) network_interfaces="em0"
> 4) network_interfaces="NOAUTO"
>
> It seems, all but 2 are deprecated.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Hiren
>