Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 16:23:14 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> To: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> Cc: Bill Paul <wpaul@FreeBSD.org>, 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 Message-ID: <20000616162314.49041@hydrogen.funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006161753420.45538-100000@sasami.jurai.net>; from Matthew N. Dodd on Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 05:56:40PM -0400 References: <200006162014.NAA12344@freefall.freebsd.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006161753420.45538-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
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Matthew N. Dodd scribbled this message on Jun 16:
> 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'?
consider that we use ether as a display for the MAC:
fxp0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ether 00:a0:c9:3c:5b:93
we should either add an alias for ether, or convert ether over to lladdr..
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