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Brooks Davis writes:
 > 
 > I don't think so.  The main offenders will be programs that walk the
 > interface list via libkvm and programs that use struct if_data.
 > ifconfig does neither.  If you haven't recompiled a module, a
 > non-working ifconfig might result if by some miracle you didn't get a
 > panic on attach.

ppc does not even build modules, so that's out.  An older ifconfig
pukes, while a new one works, so some sort of kernel/userland ABI must
have changed in the last week.  Has the data exported by sysctl changed
recently?

Debugging here is less than fun, as there is no gdb yet.

Drew