On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 02:29:26PM +0530, amitg@hss.hns.com wrote:
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> Hi All,
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> In General when a netbsd machine is booted, a loopback interface get
> attached with the system with the name lo0.
> Now my requirement is that  i dont want the loopback interface to get
> attached attached at the system up time but i should have some other ioctl
> or etc to add that loopback interface later as other interface.
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> For this, if i comment the loopback pseudo device entry from the lernel
> configuration file, the loopback code is not linked with the netbsd image
> but this is not what i want to do. I want the loopback code to be lkinked
> with the netbsd image but no loopback interface get attached at the time of
> system up.

Wouldn't removing the code to bring the interface up in /etc/rc.d/network
be enouth for your needs ?

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 24 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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