Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 13:27:36 -0600 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, kevin@insidesystems.net, joao@matik.com.br Subject: Re: Desired behaviour of "ifconfig -alias" Message-ID: <20070212192736.GB53587@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> In-Reply-To: <20070212190739.GA42702@icarus.home.lan> References: <20070212163652.GA51709@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> <200702121739.l1CHdZPO062101@lurza.secnetix.de> <20070212175940.GA52751@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> <20070212190739.GA42702@icarus.home.lan>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 11:07:39AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > 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" Setting media options and the like via _aliasesX variables makes no sense and you don't appear to be doing it so I'm confused by your question. The ifconfig_iface_aliasX syntax exists to add IPv4 addresses to an interface. New ipv4_addrs_iface variable is an attempt to replace that and nothing more. -- Brooks [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFF0L+nXY6L6fI4GtQRAujMAKDJ4w2CL9MiWhNw5WRwzfZPUDuCzgCeIB3P CFFnHJLV7jWI172RyMDKGy8= =m64Z -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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