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Date:      Wed, 8 Jun 2011 16:07:52 +0000
From:      "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net>
To:        Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: IPv4 broken on r222048
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On Jun 7, 2011, at 6:15 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote:

>> I think I just found a good "recovery" idea -- I should disable the
>> features with rescue builds.  That should give one a working
>> /rescue/ifconfig in all cases and should be sufficient to recover?
> 
>    That would be a good backup plan so people could at least avoid
> painting themselves into a corner by accident.

Can you confirm that
  http://people.freebsd.org/~bz/20110608-02-ifconfig-rescue.diff
would work for you?

One will still be screwed if doing it remotely without serial console or
keyb access, but with that there should be a way to recover.  Note that
the rc scripts also check the AF to be present and will not configure them
if not.


Bjoern

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Bjoern A. Zeeb                                 You have to have visions!
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