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Date:      Thu, 2 Jun 2005 20:37:15 -0700
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        Andrew Thompson <thompsa@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: xxconfig for if_bridge
Message-ID:  <20050603033715.GA1689@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20050603020140.GA22870@heff.fud.org.nz>
References:  <20050603020140.GA22870@heff.fud.org.nz>

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On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 02:01:40PM +1200, Andrew Thompson wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
>=20
> The if_bridge code that will soon be committed can be configured using
> either brconfig or ifconfig.
>=20
> http://people.freebsd.org/~thompsa/
>=20
> Only one tool will be committed and I would like to get opinions on
> which one ppl prefer
>=20
> brconfig
>  - new util to /sbin
>  + same as NetBSD/OpenBSD
>  - would require new rc.d script and rc.conf keywords
> =20
> ifconfig (patched for if_bridge)
>  + one tool to rule them all
>  + seamless with rc.conf, ifconfig_bridge0=3D"..."
>  - diverges from the other BSDs

ifconfig is strongly prefered.  With Sam's extensable ifconfig in
current, nearly all the various network related *config/*control
commands should be considered deprecated.  The preliforation of xxconfig
commands stems more form the difficulty of hacking ifconfig then any
good reason, IMO.

-- Brooks

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