>I am sadly giving up on my monolithic rc.. What is the difference between
>network and NETWORK ? (please don't say dhclient and altq)

network is a script that sets up your networking.

NETWORK is a dummy file that serves as a collection point for all
things network related so that things like mountcritremote can just
depend on that instead of all the things that might be involved in
setting up networking.

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