Date: Thu, 29 Dec 1994 11:41:19 -0800 (PST) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> To: ats@g386bsd.first.gmd.de (Andreas Schulz) Cc: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: ifconfig -a? Message-ID: <199412291941.LAA04300@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199412290936.KAA01659@g386bsd.first.gmd.de> from "Andreas Schulz" at Dec 29, 94 10:36:19 am
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> > > > A friend just pointed out Sun's useful -a flag to ifconfig. Anyone > > game to add this to FreeBSD? Any objections? > > No objections, i am missing it also a long time now :-). Only > interesting question, how close to which ifconfig version from > SUN should it be ? :-). Some give you back the ethernet adress > on the interface and some don't. I have not looked how easy it > is on FreeBSD to find out the own ethernet-adress. Some systems > have ioctl's for this and some systems you can't find it out easily. Doesn't this give the same information pretty much as netstat -i or -in? It's not nice to have 2 chunks of code do the same thing (note, I may be way off, it has been a long long time since I have done an ifconfig -a on anything :-(). -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD
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