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Date:      Sat, 17 Jun 2000 17:43:20 -0400
From:      "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>
To:        Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>
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 
Message-ID:  <200006172143.RAA05513@whizzo.transsys.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 17 Jun 2000 14:36:29 PDT." <200006172136.OAA01402@mass.osd.bsdi.com> 
References:  <200006172136.OAA01402@mass.osd.bsdi.com> 

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> > 
> > But how many new media-specific keywords can ifconfig withstand over
> > time?
> 
> As many as there are address families that require them.
> 
> > I was only suggesting that there be one generic one; perhaps "lladdr"
> > isn't the most mnemonic and something else is more suitable.
> 
> Why bother with a keyword at all?  I mean, why bother distinguishing 
> between "inet" and "ether"?

I supposed because inet and inet6 are used to specify L3 addresses which
have significant semantic import to the network protocol stacks.  These
L2 or physical layer addresses are merely glue to make the "connectedness"
of the network interface work.

I guess it isn't that big a deal; I'd be more concerned if there wasn't
a way to use the same ioctl to pass the information into the kernel for
different interface types.  The rest is just UI sugar coating to make
it easy to use.

louie


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