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On Sat, 2007-11-10 at 22:17 -0800, Doug Barton wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, Bob Johnson wrote:
> 
> >
> > Personally, I'd prefer the new names be along the lines of
> > ifconfig_<interface>_ipv4, ifconfig_<interface>_ipv6,
> > defaultrouter_ipv4, defaultrouter_ipv6, dhclient_program_ipv4,
> > dhclient_program_ipv6, etc.
> 
> Personally I think that grouping things by ipv4/ipv6 makes more sense, and 
> has better longevity.
> 

Frankly, I don't mind either way. I used the current scheme because
that's how the current ipv6 knobs are organized.

> > And this would be a good time to change defaultrouter to default_router!
> 
> Or we could make it shorter and call it gateway.

Changing it at this late date is probably just gratuitous.

FYI, there's a slightly updated patch back up at:
http://people.freebsd.org/~mtm/src-etc.ipv6.diff

Cheers.
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