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From: Andreas Schulz <ats@g386bsd.first.gmd.de>
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Subject: Re: ifconfig -a?
To: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
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> A friend just pointed out Sun's useful -a flag to ifconfig.  Anyone
> game to add this to FreeBSD?  Any objections?

No objections, i am missing it also a long time now :-). Only
interesting question, how close to which ifconfig version from
SUN should it be ? :-). Some give you back the ethernet adress
on the interface and some don't. I have not looked how easy it 
is on FreeBSD to find out the own ethernet-adress. Some systems
have ioctl's for this and some systems you can't find it out easily.


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