Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 17:08:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@vicor-nb.com>, net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gif devices in 4.4? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0109201706050.33215-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <20010920161440.A16697@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
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hmmmmm so what happenned to 4.4 being 4.3 compatible.... This is a bad breakage of POLA! All old gif scripts are now broken (grumble) I think whoever made this change needs to put big comments about how to do this in gif(4) and gifconfig(8) On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 04:09:10PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > > In 4.3 > > device gif 4 > > gave me 4 gif devices.. > > > > now in 4.4 it's > > pseudo_device gif > > > > but no matter what I do I don't get any gif devices... > > It's in UPDATING and the release notes, but if you use the > gifconfig_gif# rc.conf variables they will be created. It you just want > to create them on the fly do "ifconfig gif<#> create" or to get an > arbitray new one "ifconfig gif create" (the new one's name will be > printed to stdout). In current, there's also a new variable > cloned_interfaces which can be used to create any clonable interfaces to > be configured normaly. > > -- Brooks > > -- > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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