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Date:      Sun, 30 Mar 2008 13:14:36 +0200
From:      Remko Lodder <remko@elvandar.org>
To:        Eugene Grosbein <eugen@kuzbass.ru>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Net mailing list <freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org>, Brooks Davis <brooks@FreeBSD.org>, "Bruce M. Simpson" <bms@FreeBSD.org>, Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz>
Subject:   Re: 7.0 - ifconfig create is not working as expected?
Message-ID:  <9C5282E0-B44F-4A07-A606-1783D7725B5A@elvandar.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080330104525.GA57135@svzserv.kemerovo.su>
References:  <47EE42C8.3070100@quip.cz> <20080329204344.GA66910@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> <20080330072137.GA35435@svzserv.kemerovo.su> <47EF69F0.1050304@FreeBSD.org> <20080330104525.GA57135@svzserv.kemerovo.su>

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On Mar 30, 2008, at 12:45 PM, Eugene Grosbein wrote:
>>> Why? The same with creating gif-tunnel, now I need to invoke  
>>> ifconfig
>>> twice, once for 'create' and once for other tunnel parameters,
>>> whereas for RELENG_6 this works: 'ifconfig gif0 create tunnel  
>>> 1.1.1.1
>>> 2.2.2.2'
>>> This breaks existing setups/scripts. This is POLA issue.
>>> Why was it broken?
>>
>> I don't know why or how this has happened, however, given the  
>> complexity
>> of the command line grammar which ifconfig is expected to parse, our
>> choices are limited, unless someone(tm) is willing to come along and
>> implement a full parser in ifconfig.
>
> It worked. Now it does not work. Someone(tm) made the change.
> We have the CVS. Isn't there such thing as responsibility for changes?
> A dichotomy will show us who did the change :-)
>
> Eugene Grosbein

Given that the idea is that we dont expect to get to this anytime  
soon, we welcome the person who does the analysis for us so that we  
might be able to fix this quicker (if possible with all the changes  
involved).

Thanks,
remko

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