On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Jonathan Stone wrote:

// No disagreement over myname and mygate. I've been wanting to rework
// /etc/netstart (and its config files) into an /etc/rc.if (bring up
// interfaces), a` la sunos, for years.

	Just *please* don't make it work the same way FreeBSD did it.
Network configuration in FreeBSD just absolutely pissed me off.  By
default, the ``machine's IP address'' is in rc.conf (or something like
that).  Not only was it hard to find, but it was hard to get it to work a
different way (i.e. netstart.local whence I run dhclient).

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