From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Jul 4 06:50:11 1995 Return-Path: bugs-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id GAA25454 for bugs-outgoing; Tue, 4 Jul 1995 06:50:11 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id GAA25433 for ; Tue, 4 Jul 1995 06:50:07 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA10108; Tue, 4 Jul 1995 15:49:21 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id PAA07309; Tue, 4 Jul 1995 15:49:19 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA01016; Tue, 4 Jul 1995 14:48:39 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199507041248.OAA01016@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: kern/577: SLIP requires `ifconfig up' now To: davidg@root.com Date: Tue, 4 Jul 1995 14:48:39 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: freebsd-bugs@freefall.cdrom.com, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de In-Reply-To: <199507040233.TAA06074@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Jul 3, 95 07:33:53 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 454 Sender: bugs-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As David Greenman wrote: > > I have a change that will give us both what we want. Basically, "ifconfig > srcaddr dstaddr" will set the interface up if it is currently attached to a > tty. Otherwise, it will be set 'up' as soon as slattach turns the interface > into a SLIP device. Sounds good. Thank'ya. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)