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On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 01:50:33PM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote:
> ...
 
> Agreed.  There's actually some demand for a default for wired interfaces
> as well.  If nothing else I know the EmuLab people would like one
> so they didn't have to use their own scripts to configure all the
> interfaces.  I've thought about it a bit.  I'm leaning towards a
> default_ifconfig variable plus a new magic ifconfig_<if> option NONE to
> cause the default option not to be used.

>From the perspective that NIC-specific variables are of the form
"ifconfig_${NIC}" (e.g., ifconfig_lo0; ifconfig_ed0; ifconfig_xl0),
might it make at least as much sense to call it "ifconfig_default" (or
something similar)?

Peace,
david
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