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Originally Posted by tolstoi
I've only added my wireless to rc.conf and that is a little confusing to me why the system tries to bring up the ethernet connection as well.
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I suspect you added a command to
ifconfig(8) which configures your wireless interface to
rc.conf. This will configure your wireless interface every time you boot.
Most people don't want this. By placing the command into an executable script in your home directory,
~/bin/, or where ever the script can be found on the path, you can manually configure the interface whenever you want.
I also suspect there is an
ifconfig.if(5) file specific to your Ethernet interface in
/etc/. The purpose of this file is to configure an interface consistently upon
every boot. From your comments, this may be source of your confusion. Your Ethernet interface is so configured, but your wireless interface wasn't until you forced a similar configuration into
rc.conf.