Laine Stump wrote:

> At 05:17 PM 10/3/99 -0400, April G Gruhn wrote:
> >I have got the two ethers installed and I configured them by adding
> >lines to /etc/netstart.local in both the i386 and the i486.
> 
> The officially sanctioned way to do this is to add a file called
> "ifconfig.<devname>" in /etc containing all the parameters on the ifconfig
> line past "ifconfig <devname>". So, for a device called ep0, you'd add a
> file called /etc/ifconfig.ep0 with the following info (for example):
> 
> 	10.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0

"An" officially sanctioned way...  Another way is to use an rc.conf line
like:

	ifconfig_ep0="inet 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0"

I'm not a huge fan of the "let's use lots of different files in /etc"
idea.

Simon.