Setting Default NIC

John Cruz cruzweb at gmail.com
Wed May 10 18:03:39 UTC 2006


I Just upgraded my freebsd machine to a new board, this one has an 
onboard NIC where as the old one just had a PCI 10/100 nic. I put the 
old NIC on the new board as well so I can have 2 running out of the 
machine, but I don't know how to set it so that the onboard NIC (vr0) is 
the default and the PIC nic (r10) is not, because when I unplug the PCI 
one all net connectivity shuts down. Here's my ifconfig and my rc.conf 
as always help is much appreciated.

*********IFCONFIG

rl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        options=8<VLAN_MTU>
        inet6 fe80::210:b5ff:fe5f:c324%rl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
        inet 192.168.42.10 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.42.255
        ether 00:10:b5:5f:c3:24
        media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
        status: active
vr0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        inet6 fe80::250:70ff:fee8:7fe%vr0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
        inet 192.168.42.9 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.42.255
        ether 00:50:70:e8:07:fe
        media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
        status: active
plip0: flags=108810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,NEEDSGIANT> mtu 1500
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
        inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
        inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000

***********RC.CONF

# -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Sun Jan  1 19:02:32 2006
# Created: Sun Jan  1 19:02:32 2006
# Enable network daemons for user convenience.
# Please make all changes to this file, not to /etc/defaults/rc.conf.
# This file now contains just the overrides from /etc/defaults/rc.conf.
hostname="taurus.cruz"
#ifconfig_rl0="DHCP"
inetd_enable="YES"
moused_enable="YES"
moused_flags="-3"
moused_port="/dev/psm0"
moused_type="auto"
nfs_server_enable="YES"
rpcbind_enable="YES"
saver="daemon"
sshd_enable="YES"
usbd_enable="YES"
apache2_enable="YES"
apache_enable="YES"
mysqld_enable="YES"
mysql_enable="YES"
mountd_flags = "-r"

# -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Sun Jan 15 11:40:28 2006
# The Following specifies that the server is using a static IP address
ifconfig_rl0="inet 192.168.42.10  netmask 255.255.255.0"
ifconfig_vr0="inet 192.168.42.9   netmask 255.255.255.0"

defaultrouter="192.168.42.1"
hostname="taurus.cruz"
# -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Sun Apr  9 01:33:24 2006
nfs_client_enable="YES"
# -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Sun Apr 23 21:29:11 2006
font8x8="swiss-8x8"
font8x14="NO"
font8x16="swiss-8x16"



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