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Date:      Mon, 6 Jun 2005 06:14:54 +0200
From:      Max Laier <max@love2party.net>
To:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, thompsa@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/net if.c if.h if_ethersubr.c if_llc.h if_types.h if_var.h src/sys/netinet if_ether.c src/sys/sys sockio.h
Message-ID:  <200506060615.03647.max@love2party.net>
In-Reply-To: <20050605.211805.76955371.imp@bsdimp.com>
References:  <200506050313.j553DDw0014630@repoman.freebsd.org> <20050605.211805.76955371.imp@bsdimp.com>

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On Monday 06 June 2005 05:18, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <200506050313.j553DDw0014630@repoman.freebsd.org>
>
>             Andrew Thompson <thompsa@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> :   Add hooks into the networking layer to support if_bridge. This changes
> : struct ifnet so a buildworld is necessary.
>
> Can one at least ifconfig the IP address of a network interface with a
> new kernel/old ifconfig and old kernel/new ifconfig?

ifconfig uses plain ioctl's for that, it doesn't know anything about struct=
=20
ifnet.  What suffers from changes like this are programs that use kmem(4) t=
o=20
access the ifnet list directly.  A grep turns up: routed(8), ifmcstat(8) an=
d=20
netstat(1), but there might be others.  A buildworld is best when in doubt.

To answer your concern, there should be no problem with ifconfig.

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