On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Oliver Fromme <o...@lurza.secnetix.de> wrote: > David Horn wrote: > > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > > > > > network_interfaces="bge0 lo0" > > > > Ah. Ok, now I am understanding your scenario. > > > > I thought that using 'network_interfaces' with anything other than > > "AUTO" was in the process of being depreciated ? > > Well, the manual page says so, but I think that is a > mistake. There are cases where you have to specify the > list of interfaces explicitly. The situation described > in this thread is one such case.
Good point. > > My opinion is that it is good to have the ability to let > things be done automatically, but it is bad to remove the > ability to do things manually. This is UNIX, after all. Exactly. Both scenarios should probably be supported, but I guess we would need to ask brooks for some history on the depreciated warning for network_interfaces. ================================================= src/etc/network.subr Revision 1.185: download - view: text, markup, annotated - [selected for diffs] Wed Apr 30 16:29:15 2008 UTC (10 months, 2 weeks ago) by brooks Branches: MAIN Diff to: previous 1.184: preferred, colored Changes since revision 1.184: +4 -0 lines Emit a warning when the network_interfaces variable is not set to AUTO. MFC after: 3 days ================================================== --Thanks! -_Dave H > > Best regards > Oliver > > -- > Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. > Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: > secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- > chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart > > FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd > > "The ITU has offered the IETF formal alignment with its > corresponding technology, Penguins, but that won't fly." > -- RFC 2549 > _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
