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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
> 
> -- 
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