start interface without IP address in rc.conf

Chuck Swiger cswiger at mac.com
Thu Feb 19 14:03:33 PST 2004


Michael Goodman wrote:
> How do you start an interface in rc.conf without and IP address? 
> Thanks.

If you don't provide an ifconfig entry for the interface in /etc/rc.conf, it 
will not be configured with an IP address.  If you meant, "How do you 
automaticly configure a network interface using a DHCP server?" :-), try:

ifconfig_fxp0="DHCP"

-- 
-Chuck



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