From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 31 18: 2: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 230C537B400 for ; Sat, 31 Aug 2002 18:02:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [63.93.4.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AF3F43E4A for ; Sat, 31 Aug 2002 18:02:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost.wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.12.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g8111xuF010479; Sat, 31 Aug 2002 19:01:59 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.12.1/8.12.1/Submit) with ESMTP id g8111xHs010476; Sat, 31 Aug 2002 19:01:59 -0600 (MDT)?g (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 19:01:59 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: Markus Grundmann Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: My version of "ifconfig.c" for FreeBSD 4.x In-Reply-To: <002801c2514f$65b56c50$1a9692d9@hi.de.s2m.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 1 Sep 2002, Markus Grundmann wrote: > Some of my servers has more than one interfaces (NICs) and > sometimes I was unable to determine the right interface. > I think a "Description Field" like the Cisco IOS is good idea. Interesting. It might be better to add a command-line argument to ifconfig that sets the interface description rather than yet another file in /etc. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message