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M. Warner Losh wrote:
| I think I like this syntax and have only one comment.  This seems to
| match up with ifconfig's aliases fairly well.  However, I think that
| the model here might be better served by the routes:
|
| bridge_names="a b c"

Instead of this, why not just something like 'set' to find a list of
variables? Then the user can create bridge0, bridgejim, bridge_bill, or
whatever they like, and to prevent a bridge from being used, they need only
comment it out.

| I'd stick to spaces only, to match the sysctl.  I don't think that it

Well, the sysctl accepts both spaces and commas.

sh