don't know about OP, but yesterday i was surprised when rtlabel had to be specified after inet
i haven't fully researched the relationship between the two, but at least during boot's run of netstart, this is a case where order of lines and thus ifconfig commands do matter On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Jason McIntyre <j...@kerhand.co.uk> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 04:30:47PM +0200, Paul Irofti wrote: >> Be more specific about the order of interpretation. Okay? >> >> diff --git share/man/man5/hostname.if.5 share/man/man5/hostname.if.5 >> index b07459f..aa8446f 100644 >> --- share/man/man5/hostname.if.5 >> +++ share/man/man5/hostname.if.5 >> @@ -49,6 +49,8 @@ A configuration file is not needed for lo0. >> The configuration information is expressed in a line-by-line packed format >> which makes the most common cases simpler; those dense formats are described >> below. >> +The order of the configuration lines matters, they are interpreted from the >> +top down. >> Any lines not matching these packed formats are passed directly to >> .Xr ifconfig 8 . >> The packed formats are converted using a somewhat inflexible parser and >> > > if we say this, then we should provide guidance to folks about how to > order the lines. what is the specific problem, or the general rule, that > you are addressing? > > jmc
