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Date:      Sat, 31 Aug 2002 17:34:27 -0700
From:      "Corey Snow" <corey@snowpoint.com>
To:        "Markus Grundmann" <mgrundmann@activezone.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: My version of "ifconfig.c" for FreeBSD 4.x
Message-ID:  <3D70FE23.16166.3A558BE8@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <002801c2514f$65b56c50$1a9692d9@hi.de.s2m.net>

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On 1 Sep 2002, at 2:34, Markus Grundmann wrote:

> Hi!
>  
> Some of my servers has more than one interfaces (NICs) and
> sometimes I was unable to determine the right interface.
> I think a "Description Field" like the Cisco IOS is good idea.
>  
> Now I have added a new (simple) function named "ifcomment" to the
> source file "ifconfig.c". This function reads the description of
> an interface from the file "/etc/interfaces" and
> prints it out every you enter the command.
>  
> The modified source (Version 8.2 from FreeBSD 4.6) is available for
> download at ftp://ftp.activezone.org/dev/freebsd/ifconfig.tar.gz
>  

Why don't you submit it for contribution into FreeBSD itself? There's 
info on submitting 3rd-party patches/enhancements on the FreeBSD web 
site.

Corey


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