From owner-cvs-all Fri Jun 16 16:23:28 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from funkthat.com (adsl-63-195-54-213.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.195.54.213]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3764C37BA63; Fri, 16 Jun 2000 16:23:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gurney_j@efn.org) Received: (from jmg@localhost) by funkthat.com (8.9.3/8.8.7) id QAA63626; Fri, 16 Jun 2000 16:23:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20000616162314.49041@hydrogen.funkthat.com> Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 16:23:14 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney To: "Matthew N. Dodd" Cc: Bill Paul , 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 References: <200006162014.NAA12344@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69 In-Reply-To: ; from Matthew N. Dodd on Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 05:56:40PM -0400 Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney Organization: Cu Networking X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE i386 X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 EC EF F8 AE ED A7 31 96 7A 22 B3 D8 56 36 F4 X-Files: The truth is out there X-URL: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 mtu 1500 ether 00:a0:c9:3c:5b:93 we should either add an alias for ether, or convert ether over to lladdr.. -- Joh -Mark Gurney Voice: +1 408 975 9651 Cu Networking "Thank God I'm an atheist, that'd just be confusing." -- cmc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message