From owner-freebsd-net Thu Sep 20 16:32:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from InterJet.elischer.org (c421509-a.pinol1.sfba.home.com [24.7.86.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A94A937B407 for ; Thu, 20 Sep 2001 16:32:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA33534; Thu, 20 Sep 2001 17:08:25 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 17:08:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Brooks Davis Cc: Julian Elischer , net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gif devices in 4.4? In-Reply-To: <20010920161440.A16697@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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