Multiple NICs

Yannack yannick_bre at yahoo.fr
Mon Nov 29 15:03:32 PST 2004


>As you have discovered, the order of items listed in /etc/rc.conf doesn't
>matter. That is because one literally is setting values of variables
>there. Its some time later before those variables are actually used.
>
I am not sure I quite understood this part...

> If
>you wish to continue this direction you might kill your dhclient process
>which is running on fxp0 then manually start it again "dhclient fxp0".
>
However this is exactly what I was looking for.

> If
>that results in the route you wish then you might be able to control the
>start order with this in /etc/rc.conf:
>
>network_interfaces="lo0 an0 fxp0"
>  
>
And this worked!!!! Hurray :) Thank you so much!
How did you know this could do that??? I checked the man page, and it 
really isn't appearant... or is it?
Anyways thank you so much !



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