Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 11:34:32 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: obrien@FreeBSD.org Cc: Bill Paul <wpaul@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys sockio.h src/sys/net if.c src/sbin/ifconfig ifconfig.8 ifconfig.c Message-ID: <200006171834.LAA00859@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 17 Jun 2000 05:14:07 PDT." <20000617051407.A72404@dragon.nuxi.com>
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> On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 04:23:14PM -0700, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > > consider that we use ether as a display for the MAC: > > fxp0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > > ether 00:a0:c9:3c:5b:93 > > > > we should either add an alias for ether, or convert ether over to lladdr.. > > Agreed. "ether" is probably the most understood. Especially since this is the "ether" address we are setting. All of the other address tokens are address-family specific, rather than layer-specific. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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