> Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2021 16:47:26 +0000 > From: Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> > > there's the case of "don't want to use it _yet_", for example you might > want to setup umb ready for use but only bring it up manually when > needed, or you might want to setup pppoe and don't want it to start > trying to connect immediately at the point it processes "inet" but > wait until you've sent all of the configuration commands.
Right. I have a few machines where I have wireless interfaces that I configure with a nwid and wpakey such that I can bring them up with a simple "ifconfig bwfm0 up" and deliberately don't bring them up automatically. > > not to mention one command less to run or one less option > > to use in hostname.if(5), on the other. > > For the hostname.if case, it's easy enough, netstart could do "up" > automatically after configuring if there is no "down" in the file. That would break my configurations.
