From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 16 22:06:06 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FD6316A420 for ; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 22:06:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 171B643D48 for ; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 22:06:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j5GM5GLd029091; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 15:05:16 -0700 Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0/Submit) id j5GM5FUn029090; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 15:05:15 -0700 Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 15:05:15 -0700 From: Brooks Davis To: David Wolfskill , current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050616220515.GC20431@odin.ac.hmc.edu> References: <20050615061009.GA11914@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <001501c5720b$aceb84d0$0b2a15ac@SMILEY> <20050616164747.GB21733@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <20050616.142507.85367515.imp@bsdimp.com> <20050616205033.GF13900@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <20050616210404.GM33118@bunrab.catwhisker.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="qtZFehHsKgwS5rPz" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050616210404.GM33118@bunrab.catwhisker.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=8.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on odin.ac.hmc.edu Cc: Subject: Re: HEADSUP: OpenBSD dhclient incoming X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 22:06:06 -0000 --qtZFehHsKgwS5rPz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 02:04:04PM -0700, David Wolfskill wrote: > On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 01:50:33PM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote: > > ... > =20 > > Agreed. There's actually some demand for a default for wired interfaces > > as well. If nothing else I know the EmuLab people would like one > > so they didn't have to use their own scripts to configure all the > > interfaces. I've thought about it a bit. I'm leaning towards a > > default_ifconfig variable plus a new magic ifconfig_ option NONE to > > cause the default option not to be used. >=20 > >From the perspective that NIC-specific variables are of the form > "ifconfig_${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)? I'm divided on that one. The problem is that users may want to name an interface "default" and this would break that. I like the symetry and the sort order of ifconfig_default, but I'm concerned about exceptions to the namespace as well. I'm somewhat tempted by ifconfig_DEFAULT. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --qtZFehHsKgwS5rPz Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCsfeaXY6L6fI4GtQRArExAJ9TRVJg/rfysRTlH1VPACiiRkd9mgCggDHg GksEJYB1ByxC7T9WmNPBaWo= =twXL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --qtZFehHsKgwS5rPz--