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Date:      Fri, 16 Jun 2000 17:56:40 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
To:        Bill Paul <wpaul@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:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006161753420.45538-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
In-Reply-To: <200006162014.NAA12344@freefall.freebsd.org>

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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'?

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