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Date:      Thu, 2 Oct 2003 11:16:18 +0300
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Review requested: revised patch for bin/41647
Message-ID:  <20031002081618.GA88940@sunbay.com>
In-Reply-To: <20031001105553.GA10462@saboteur.dek.spc.org>
References:  <20031001105553.GA10462@saboteur.dek.spc.org>

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On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 11:55:53AM +0100, Bruce M Simpson wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> It should be possible to set the link layer address of an interface whilst
> also setting the IP address. Here's a revised patch for ifconfig(8) to
> add this functionality (against HEAD) based on the one in the PR.
>=20
> There is a problem in that applying this patch modifies syntax such that
> statements of the form 'ifconfig xl0 ether' to view the ethernet address
> of an interface will no longer work. Using ifconfig(8) on its own or with
> the -a switch will dump this information however.
>=20
> Feedback anyone?
> BMS

Please don't, this would be backwards.  Please see the commit log for
ifconfig/ifconfig.c,v 1.73.


Cheers,
--=20
Ruslan Ermilov		Sysadmin and DBA,
ru@sunbay.com		Sunbay Software Ltd,
ru@FreeBSD.org		FreeBSD committer

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