[gentoo-user] howto disable automatic net.eth0 configuration

I have a laptop computer with an ethernet port, and during bootup dhcpcd gets invoked (twice) to configure a network connection on 'eth0'. I have set rc_hotplug=* !net.eth0 in /etc/rc.conf and RC_HOTPLUG=yes RC_COLDPLUG=yes RC_PLUG_SERVICES=!net.eth0 in /etc/conf.d/rc (why do these files

Re: [gentoo-user] howto disable automatic net.eth0 configuration

On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 10:46:43 -0700, Justin Findlay wrote: I have a laptop computer with an ethernet port, and during bootup dhcpcd gets invoked (twice) to configure a network connection on 'eth0'. I have set rc_hotplug=* !net.eth0 Try rc_hotplug=!net.eth0 *. It may be matching eth0 on the