From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 12 19:16:29 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 196CF16A401; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 19:16:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from alnrmhc16.comcast.net (alnrmhc16.comcast.net [206.18.177.56]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86CDD13C474; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 19:16:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from icarus.home.lan (c-71-198-0-135.hsd1.ca.comcast.net[71.198.0.135]) by comcast.net (alnrmhc16) with ESMTP id <20070212190740b1600iaqhqe>; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 19:07:40 +0000 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 01E221FA01D; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 11:07:40 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 11:07:39 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Brooks Davis Message-ID: <20070212190739.GA42702@icarus.home.lan> Mail-Followup-To: Brooks Davis , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, kevin@insidesystems.net, joao@matik.com.br References: <20070212163652.GA51709@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> <200702121739.l1CHdZPO062101@lurza.secnetix.de> <20070212175940.GA52751@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070212175940.GA52751@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> X-PGP-Key: http://jdc.parodius.com/pubkey.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Cc: kevin@insidesystems.net, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, joao@matik.com.br Subject: Re: Desired behaviour of "ifconfig -alias" X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 19:16:29 -0000 On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 11:59:40AM -0600, Brooks Davis wrote: > What do you need to set? It's sets IP and netmask. It doesn't handle > broadcast, but I'd be pretty suprised if that's needed often. What else > is needed? Axing ifconfig_iface_aliasX is not needed, but reducing the > visiability of the interface in the documentation is probably in order > particularly since it's quite fragile since you have to renumber whenever > you remove an entry. Does it support media and mediaopt arguments? These are very commonly used. I also rely on this, for what it's worth: openvpn_enable="yes" openvpn_configfile="/conf/ME/openvpn/openvpn.conf" openvpn_dir="/conf/ME/openvpn" openvpn_if="tap" cloned_interfaces="bridge0" ifconfig_bridge0="addm em1 up" -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |