Bruce M Simpson wrote: > On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 11:54:20AM -0800, Lars Eggert wrote: > >>shouldn't this work? >> >># ifconfig em0 inet 128.9.168.58 netmask 255.255.240.0 \ >> ether 00:07:e9:0a:26:52 >>ifconfig: ether: bad value >> >>This is with today's -current, but this may have been around longer - I >>hadn't tried it before today. Using two commands to set MAC and IP >>addresses works fine, but it needs to be one command for rc.conf. > > > This issue is already known about and the behaviour you are seeing is in > accordance with how ifconfig should currently behave. > > I suggest patching rc scripts until it can be solved the right way round. Thanks for the explanations! I'll work around this with a start_if.em0 script then. Lars -- Lars Eggert <larse_at_isi.edu> USC Information Sciences Institute
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