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<<On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 22:05:02 +0200, Andre Oppermann <andre@FreeBSD.ORG> said:

> Brooks Davis wrote:
>> I'm considering adding an ifconfig -v option that would imply -m and add
>> more details like index, epoch, dname, dunit, etc.

> That would be great!

A particularly relevant feature would give `ifconfig' an option to
emit the current configuration of the interface in a form which would
be acceptable on the `ifconfig' command line.

-GAWollman