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From: mat@niki.isdnet.net (Mathieu Guillaume)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: adding IP to netstart w/o rebooting
Date: 21 Mar 1997 07:06:49 GMT
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hockey fan (jpdavid@netcom.com) wrote:
: I was wondering if you can add an ip address to the netstart (ifconfig),
: without rebooting? It isn't a big deal to reboot, but I have had this
: box up for 194 days (since upgrading from 2.0 to 2.1), and hate to
: break the streak. :)

Of course you can. Just put them into /etc/netstart for your next reboot
(or crash :), and either rerun netstart or run ifconfig and route by hand,
that should do the trick.

					Mat