Using any network interface whatsoever

[Brooks Davis]

On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 11:53:42PM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to configure a bootable image to be used in various situations
> and on various (mostly unknown) hardware.
> 
> For the filesystem I can use geom_label and /dev/ufs/UnlikelyString, but I'd
> also like to have it try to configure whatever interfaces the machine
> happens to have via DHCP.
> 
> Other than specifying ifconfig_<if>0="DHCP" once for every possible value of
> <if>, is there a mechanism to do this already?

ifconfig_DEFAULT

If you have non-Ethernet-like interfaces compiled in, you will probably
want create empty "ifconfig_<if>" variables for them since DHCP won't
work very well there. :)

-- Brooks

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