How to mark an interace as 'down' at boot time?

[Matthew Seaman]

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On 28/03/2010 09:51:50, Modulok wrote:
> Trivial question,
> 
> Is there an rc.conf way to mark a network interface as being 'down' at
> boot time? I could do it with a cron job, or a kernel rebuild, but I
> thought there'd be some nifty rc.conf syntax. I tried this:
> 
> ifconfig_bge0="down"
> 
> The interface is marked as down in the dmesg output, but it's still up
> when the boot cycle completes.

Hmmm... normally, you'ld just leave any extra NICs unconfigured.  Not
plugging a cable in generally makes the OS believe the NIC is down.

You can tell the OS the i/f shouldn't be configured by:

ifconfig_bge0="NOAUTO"

but that will probably still leave the i/f up if a cable is attached.

In this case, you could try using both of:

ifconfig_bge0="down"
ipv6_ifconfig_bge0="ifdisabled down"

(rc.conf syntax for IPv6 is different in CURRENT, but I assume you're
not using that.)

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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