On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 09:13:37AM EST, Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 03:26:02PM +0200, Lars Engblom wrote: > > > I guess you mean the case of having several network interfaces. Let > > all of the unconfigured interfaces get the IP settings from > > hostname.default and write this in the documentation. It is easier > > to plug in just one cable than having to guess all the names of the > > interfaces (em0, bge0, re0, rl0 etc). > > One problem with this idea is that you can't have the same IP on > multiple interfaces and expect things to work. > > A recent discussed on misc@ made this quite clear: > http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=141564884907430&w=2
The scope there was even broader: PH> That is not supported. You MUST NOT have IPs in the same range on PH> different interfaces. I think I know what the OP has in mind - having a "default" IP address configuration which gets assigned to an interface where "media" is present. The only way I see this working is with only a single Ethernet adaptor has the cable plugged in - otherwise it gets messy. One way or another, this shouldn't be too difficult to script and run from /etc/rc.firsttime. rjc
