From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 2 01:16:32 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CDDD16A4B3 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 2003 01:16:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (whale.sunbay.crimea.ua [212.110.138.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C374643FA3 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 2003 01:16:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ru@sunbay.com) Received: from whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (ru@localhost [127.0.0.1]) h928GIZ4090040 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 2 Oct 2003 11:16:18 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ru@sunbay.com) Received: (from ru@localhost) by whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (8.12.9p2/8.12.8/Submit) id h928GIHO090035 for freebsd-net@freebsd.org; Thu, 2 Oct 2003 11:16:18 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ru) Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 11:16:18 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20031002081618.GA88940@sunbay.com> References: <20031001105553.GA10462@saboteur.dek.spc.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031001105553.GA10462@saboteur.dek.spc.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Subject: Re: Review requested: revised patch for bin/41647 X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 08:16:32 -0000 --h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 --h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/e97SUkv4P6juNwoRAnDnAJ9YtSTQBIn/+hZp7bqZ/v95SWp+kgCeKmEY 7j0qOLdmAMhSw5jcnuO0bz8= =2WfU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF--