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From: Terry Lee <terry@uivlsisd.csl.uiuc.edu>
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Subject: Re: ifconfig -a?
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>> A friend just pointed out Sun's useful -a flag to ifconfig.  Anyone
>> game to add this to FreeBSD?  Any objections?
>
>No objections, i am missing it also a long time now :-). Only
>interesting question, how close to which ifconfig version from
>SUN should it be ? :-). Some give you back the ethernet adress
>on the interface and some don't. I have not looked how easy it 
>
>	  ATS ( ats@first.gmd.de or ats@cs.tu-berlin.de )

	Doesn't the SunOS version only show the ethernet address if run by
root?

					Terry Lee
					terry@uivlsi.csl.uiuc.edu