Subject: Re: rc.conf vs interface aliases
To: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@netbsd.org>
List: tech-net
Date: 01/18/2006 22:51:34
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 04:05:31PM -0500, der Mouse wrote:

> I'm currently leaning towards a local script in rc.d, with REQUIRE:root
> and BEFORE:network, which rewrites /etc/ifconfig.* and /etc/pf.conf
> based on /etc/ifnames (or whatever).  But that seems pretty gross,

Why? The good thing about rc.d is that you can do that cleanly. See the
the shared root stuff from my EuroBSDCon 2002 paper - I used the same 
method to hook my stuff in.

I'd go ahead and do it that way.

	-is
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