Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 08:20:41 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: net@FreeBSD.ORG, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: review request: creating cloneable interfaces at boot Message-ID: <20010914082041.A7169@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <20010914143530.E12915@sunbay.com>; from ru@FreeBSD.ORG on Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 02:35:30PM %2B0300 References: <20010913200221.A11788@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <20010914143530.E12915@sunbay.com>
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On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 02:35:30PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> Umm, how about extending the ${network_interfaces} functionality as follows.
> For each ${network_interfaces} argument,
>
> 1. if the value is `auto', add `ifconfig -l' to the list of interfaces
> 2. for every other argument which is not in the `ifconfig -l' list
> (ifconfig -l | grep -wq ${ifn} returns non-zero), but in the
> list of cloners (ifconfig -L) creates the corresponding interface.
I don't really like that idea very much. If you implement 2) that way
you lose ifconfig's auto module loading. You actually have to blindly
try if you want that to work (and I do). Because of this, I like having
a seperate variable that you only use for clonable interfaces.
-- Brooks
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