netbsd-users: network config: rc.conf or separate files?

Subject: network config: rc.conf or separate files?
To: None <netbsd-users@NetBSD.org>
From: Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 04/13/2007 11:41:43

I'm learning NetBSD (from Debian), doing a test install on an old 171 MB
drive.  

Reading the guide, there appear to be two ways to configure networking:

	put things like hostname and ifconfig in rc.conf

	put things in separate files like /etc/myname, /etc/ifconfig.xxx

I'm wondering why there are two different ways and the pros and cons of
choosing either.  Is one historical and the other more recent?

Thanks,

Doug.