Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 05:56:10 +0900 (JST) From: Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org> To: pluknet@gmail.com Cc: dougb@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-rc@FreeBSD.org, melifaro@ipfw.ru Subject: Re: [CFR] rc.conf interface description Message-ID: <20110612.055610.725598761140735688.hrs@allbsd.org> In-Reply-To: <BANLkTikfoQtgVv2Vnkg6Fn4kq68qjqpWRw@mail.gmail.com> References: <BANLkTikfoQtgVv2Vnkg6Fn4kq68qjqpWRw@mail.gmail.com>
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----Security_Multipart(Sun_Jun_12_05_56_10_2011_096)-- Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sergey Kandaurov <pluknet@gmail.com> wrote in <BANLkTikfoQtgVv2Vnkg6Fn4kq68qjqpWRw@mail.gmail.com>: pl> Hello. pl> pl> Some time ago there was a discussion about ifconfig descr integration pl> into rc. That means you can store interface descriptions in rc.conf file, pl> so that the descriptions survive between system reboots. To achieve it, pl> you need to place one-line option into rc.conf, e.g. like this: pl> ifconfig_em0_descr="Uplink to Gigabit Switch 1", or pl> ifconfig_vlan8_descr="description '1 2 3' vlan 255 vlandev IFACE" pl> pl> so after reboot or manual `rc.d/netif restart $iface` invocation, you''ll see pl> something like this: pl> vlan8: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 pl> description: description '1 2 3' vlan 255 vlandev IFACE pl> [...] pl> And rc.d/netif stop $iface removes description from a network interface. pl> pl> You can see the previous discussion in -current@ and -rc@ mail archives: pl> http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-current@freebsd.org/msg124513.html pl> However, that time it went nowhere due to luck of time/interest. pl> pl> Recently I learned that this patch is actually used. pl> I was requested to integrate it into the head. pl> I'd like to collect your opinions/objections/thoughts to ensure whether pl> there are might be issues preventing from committing it. I have no strong objection but I am still wondering if we really need to have the dedicated variable for ifconfig descr. Is simply specifying ifconfig_IF="descr FOO" not enough? -- Hiroki ----Security_Multipart(Sun_Jun_12_05_56_10_2011_096)-- Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAk3z1moACgkQTyzT2CeTzy0EygCeO0dc+aRpwWsyLv+T/3+abnho S2MAn1hMc1oEqtccHre1LPCViMucTGTd =b3kG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ----Security_Multipart(Sun_Jun_12_05_56_10_2011_096)----
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