Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2010 09:21:29 +0300 From: Ilya A. Arhipov <pa36ouHu4er@yandex.ru> To: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: More "noise" in ifconfig Message-ID: <540611291184489@web44.yandex.ru> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimhOK5HXm6KhEVCSFmwjM0DMdu-uaAh-1W6Nv0C@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTimhOK5HXm6KhEVCSFmwjM0DMdu-uaAh-1W6Nv0C@mail.gmail.com>
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30.11.10, 20:21, "Garrett Cooper" <yanegomi@gmail.com>: > Just updated to HEAD and I saw the recent ifconfig, usb ethernet, > et all changes: > > $ ifconfig > usbus0: flags=0<> metric 0 mtu 0 > usbus1: flags=0<> metric 0 mtu 0 > usbus2: flags=0<> metric 0 mtu 0 > usbus3: flags=0<> metric 0 mtu 0 > msk0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 > options=c011b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,TSO4,VLAN_HWTSO,LINKSTATE> > ether 00:1d:60:b6:eb:97 > inet 192.168.20.3 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.20.255 > media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT > <full-duplex,flowcontrol,rxpause,txpause>) > status: active > usbus4: flags=0<> metric 0 mtu 0 > usbus5: flags=0<> metric 0 mtu 0 > usbus6: flags=0<> metric 0 mtu 0 > usbus7: flags=0<> metric 0 mtu 0 > lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384 > options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM> > inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 > $ ifconfig -l > usbus0 usbus1 usbus2 usbus3 msk0 usbus4 usbus5 usbus6 usbus7 lo0 > > I don't have any USB ethernet devices, so I would expect usbus, et > all to be blank, but this would break a few (dumb) scenarios we have > at my work where it goes and looks at ifconfig -l (of course I've > tried convincing others to use ifconfig -l inet instead, but that was > to no avail). > This could potentially break other dumb scripts as well. > So the question is: what are we gaining with this additional, terse output? > Thanks, > -Garrett > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > Log: Don't print usbus[0-9] interfaces that it's not the interesting interface type for ifconfig(8). svn commit: r216089
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