From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] IP on boot time
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
Date: Sat,  7 Apr 2007 09:45:35 -0400
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> Can I configure IP interface at boot time for my standalone cpu/file server?
> Experiment with bootargs shows that is not possible.
> I want to listen my fossil in it config, but it can not because
> "fossil(#S/sdC0/fossil)...listen: announce 'il!192.168.1.6!17008':
> announce writing /net/il: not a local IP address"

For a standalone machine, IP configuration happens
after starting fossil, so you can't specify an IP address
like you are doing. 

However, you can announce il!*!17008 and tcp!*!564
and then fossil will listen on all subsequently-configured 
interfaces.

Russ