Subject: Re: Flexible interface selection
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net>
List: current-users
Date: 08/11/2001 19:40:52
In message <20010812023740.G7429@pasta.cs.uit.no>, Feico Dillema writes:
>On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 06:30:14PM -0500, Peter Seebach wrote:
>> I'm trying to find a clean way to express a feature I sort of want.  The
>> feature is this:  When my wireless card is plugged in, I want NetBSD to
>> use it.  When it's not, I want NetBSD to use the ethernet port.

>Hmmm, cannot you already do all this using /etc/ifconfig.<ifn> files?

I don't think so, because I want only one interface configured, and whichever
one it is, I want it to get the machine's address, which doesn't change.  So,
if I have an ifconfig.tlp0, and the wireless is in, the tulip *also* gets
configured, which I don't want.

-s