From owner-cvs-all Sat Jun 17 14:31:46 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (adsl-63-206-88-224.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.206.88.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6163137B63C; Sat, 17 Jun 2000 14:31:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA01402; Sat, 17 Jun 2000 14:36:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200006172136.OAA01402@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Louis A. Mamakos" 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 In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 17 Jun 2000 17:23:29 EDT." <200006172123.RAA05383@whizzo.transsys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 14:36:29 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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"? (This is an illustrative question, and not meant to be taken literally.) -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message