On 2014-10-21 19:08, Mason Loring Bliss wrote: > Someone just came into Freenode #freebsd asking how to run DHCP. This led to > a brief search of the docs. We could tell him to say ifconfig_some0="DHCP" > but it wasn't clear where he'd find that on his own. > > It turns out that it's crazily far down the rc.conf(5) man page, and it's far > from the first hit if you search for DHCP - in the 10.1-rc2 page it's the > twelth hit, and it shows up deep down in the middle of a section. It's > effectively buried. > > Also, /etc/defaults/rc.conf doesn't actually include a DHCP example at all, > although it does have several example entries: > > #ifconfig_lo0="inet 127.0.0.1" # default loopback device configuration. > #ifconfig_lo0_alias0="inet 127.0.0.254 netmask 0xffffffff" # Sample alias > entry. > #ifconfig_ed0_ipx="ipx 0x00010010" # Sample IPX address family entry. > #ifconfig_ed0_ipv6="inet6 2001:db8:1::1 prefixlen 64" # Sample IPv6 addr entry > #ifconfig_ed0_alias0="inet6 2001:db8:2::1 prefixlen 64" # Sample IPv6 alias > #ifconfig_fxp0_name="net0" # Change interface name from fxp0 to net0. > > To reiterate something I'd mentioned in another mail, I think it'd be good > for rc.conf to come pre-stocked with a pointer to /etc/defaults/rc.conf so > new folks know that's there. And to accomodate this situation, it seems like > a DHCP example should be added to the list, above. As a final suggestion, it > seems like /etc/defaults/rc.conf ought to be ordered such that it lists > critical operational items first, networking stuff being a good example of > this. >
Pre-stocking it might be an idea currently, a fresh install has no /etc/rc.conf file at all, then bsdinstall adds a few lines to it if you configured networking or ZFS etc. It isn't a bad idea though. -- Allan Jude
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