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From: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@kuzbass.ru>
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Subject: Re: 7.0 - ifconfig create is not working as expected?
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> >Why? The same with creating gif-tunnel, now I need to invoke ifconfig
> >twice, once for 'create' and once for other tunnel parameters,
> >whereas for RELENG_6 this works: 'ifconfig gif0 create tunnel 1.1.1.1 
> >2.2.2.2' 
> >This breaks existing setups/scripts. This is POLA issue.
> >Why was it broken?
> 
> I don't know why or how this has happened, however, given the complexity 
> of the command line grammar which ifconfig is expected to parse, our 
> choices are limited, unless someone(tm) is willing to come along and 
> implement a full parser in ifconfig.

It worked. Now it does not work. Someone(tm) made the change.
We have the CVS. Isn't there such thing as responsibility for changes?
A dichotomy will show us who did the change :-)

Eugene Grosbein