On Mon, Jun 20, 2022 at 11:41:05PM +0100, Julian Smith wrote: > Recently i got really confused after removing a 'join <ID> ... ' line > from /etc/hostname.iwn0, then running `sh /etc/netstart`. This resulted > in reconnection to <ID>, even though <ID> was now not mentioned > anywhere in /etc/hostname.iwn0. > > Even `ifconfig iwn0 down up` did not change this behaviour. > > It turned out that i needed to do `ifconfig iwn0 down -joinlist up` to remove > all networks from the join list, as described in ifconfig(8). [I'm not > actually sure that the `down` and `up` are necessary.] > > Would it be possible and make sense to have /etc/netstart do this > automatically for wireless interfaces? Or am i misunderstanding what > /etc/netstart is for?
You could add the following as the first line of hostname.if if you would like netstart to clear out existing networks before adding new ones: -joinlist
