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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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 11:55:53AM +0100, Bruce M Simpson wrote: > Hi, > > 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. > > 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. > > Feedback anyone? > BMS Please don't, this would be backwards. Please see the commit log for ifconfig/ifconfig.c,v 1.73. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software Ltd, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/e97SUkv4P6juNwoRAnDnAJ9YtSTQBIn/+hZp7bqZ/v95SWp+kgCeKmEY 7j0qOLdmAMhSw5jcnuO0bz8= =2WfU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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