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Date:      Mon, 13 Oct 1997 18:26:41 -0700
From:      John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
To:        "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com>
Cc:        David Greenman <dg@root.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: de driver broken with SMC 8434BT 
Message-ID:  <199710140126.SAA07914@austin.polstra.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:14:49 CDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.971013201314.3769B-100000@shell.futuresouth.com> 

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> >    BTW, I've been thinking about yanking the "-m" option and
> > simply always outputting this information instead. I found myself
> > spending way too much time trying to find "-m" (when I didn't
> > know it existed and thus didn't know that I should be looking for
> > it). Opinions?
>
> When did you have in mind to output this?  Always, when ifconfig'ing
> a device that has multiple media, only when changing the media
> type...?  I can see this being really useful in some situations, but
> pretty cumbersome in others.

I don't think it would be cumbersome.  It just adds a single line to
the ifconfig output.

I like David's idea.  Ifconfig already tells you practically
everything about the interface anyway.

John
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   John Polstra                                       jdp@polstra.com
   John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.                Seattle, Washington USA
   "Self-knowledge is always bad news."                 -- John Barth



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