Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 14:11:17 +0200 (CEST) From: sthaug@nethelp.no To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: How to set interface description containing space in 8.x Message-ID: <20111022.141117.74664953.sthaug@nethelp.no>
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FreeBSD 8.x (well, at least 8.2) has the very nice feature of letting
you set an interface *description* (just like you can on any Juniper/
Cisco/whatever router). This decription can contain spaces - so I can
do for instance:
xxx# ifconfig bge1 descr "abc def"
xxx# ifconfig bge1
bge1: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
description: abc def
options=8009b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,LINKSTATE>
ether 00:13:72:20:b4:6f
media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex,flowcontrol,rxpause,txpause>)
status: active
and we see that the decription includes a space. The question is - how
can I include a description containing one or more spaces in rc.conf?
The straighforward attempt,
ifconfig_bge1="up descr abc def"
doesn't work - "abc" and "def" are given as separate parameters to the
ifconfig command, resulting in "abc" being used and "def" regarded as
an extra parameter:
xxx# /etc/rc.d/netif start bge1
ifconfig: def: bad value
I have tried several variants,
ifconfig_bge1="up descr abc\ def"
ifconfig_bge1="up descr abc\\ def"
ifconfig_bge1="up descr 'abc def'"
ifconfig_bge1="up descr \"abc def\""
ifconfig_bge1="up descr abc_def"
but none have the desired result. Can anybody shed a light on this?
Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no
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