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From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How to configure additional network interfaces
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 17:41:25 +0000
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Thomas B. Fox wrote:
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> 
> 
> On the sysinstall menu there is an option to configure additional net
> interfaces. This option doesn't seem to work for me. How can I
> manually configure an interface? The system identifies my devices
> at bootup okay but won't configure them for me.

Define them in /etc/sysconfig , in the Netconfig section. Comments in
there make it clear.
-- 
Ken

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