On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 01:24, hiren panchasara <hiren.panchas...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 12:49 AM, Juli Mallett <jmall...@freebsd.org> wrote: >> In general, interfaces do >> not come from the configuration files like rc.conf, however the way >> that those interfaces are set up on boot is configured by files like >> rc.conf. > > > Thanks Juli. > So, does it mean that looking at getifaddrs() is the best way (as ifconfig > is doing) to get the correct state of network interfaces at any point in > time?
Yes. > And for the interface of your interest, you can check if rc.conf is > specifying any persistent configuration or not. Pretty much. There are other ways one could configure the interfaces persistently (for example, a series of ifconfig commands in rc.local) but in general rc.conf is the way to go, unless you decide to build your own configuration system. _______________________________________________ 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"
