From owner-cvs-all Fri Jun 16 14:56:46 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [63.67.141.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 491E037B722; Fri, 16 Jun 2000 14:56:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA95036; Fri, 16 Jun 2000 17:56:40 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 17:56:40 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Bill Paul Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys sockio.h src/sys/net if.c src/sbin/ifconfig ifconfig.8 ifconfig.c In-Reply-To: <200006162014.NAA12344@freefall.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Bill Paul wrote: > Implement SIOCSIFLLADDR, which allows you to change the link-level > address on an interface. This basically allows you to do what my > little setmac module/utility does via ifconfig. This involves the > following changes: ... > ifconfig.c: add lladdr command > ifconfig.8: document lladdr command Solaris does this via 'ifconfig foo0 ether x:x:x:x:x:x' Non-ethernet cards would likely use 'lladdr'. Won't this difference be somewhat non-intuitive given out ifconfig's use of 'lladdr' and 'ether'? -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | winter@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | This Space For Rent | ISO8802.5 4ever | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message