ifconfig in rc.conf network problems

[Marco Beishuizen]

On stardate Sun, 30 May 2004, the wise Warren Block entered:

> On Sun, 30 May 2004, Marco Beishuizen wrote:
>
>> I used to have two ifconfig lines in my rc.conf:
>> ifconfig_dc0="DHCP"
>> ifconfig_dc0="media autoselect"
>> 
>> The first to enable DHCP and the second to set my networkcard to 100BaseTX 
>> full duplex.
>
> Can rc.conf work that way?  rc.conf is just a shell script, and you're 
> assigning values to variables, so the second declaration would overwrite the 
> first.  As to why that would have worked for you...  After dhclient runs 
> successfully once, some of the information is kept on disk (resolv.conf, 
> default route).  Maybe it was enough?

I don't know why but it did work. Now I put the media autoselect line in 
/etc/start_if.dc0 and that works.
Thanks,

Marco

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