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 * and
looking no further.
> 
> 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 still both exist after 7 years,
> especially as they contain duplicate configuration?)

Because you did not delete /etc/conf.d/rc after upgrading to baselayout2.

> I would just unmerge dhcpcd, but it seems that NetworkManager needs an
> external dhcp client.  What can I do to prevent this behaviour?

You could ditch NetworkManager...


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Neil Bothwick

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