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Date:      Tue, 28 Jul 2015 15:31:32 +0300
From:      Arseny Nasokin <eirnym@gmail.com>
To:        Jason Hellenthal <jhellenthal@dataix.net>
Cc:        Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: [RFC] ifconfig description
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Separate ifconfig_IF_description will be simpler to use.

-- Eir Nym

On 27 July 2015 at 22:19, Jason Hellenthal <jhellenthal@dataix.net> wrote:

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> Yeah thats pretty much what I=E2=80=99m doing right now. Attempting to ma=
tch up
> some interfaces and throw a valuable description on each interface. With
> vlan interfaces I have not been successful at anything but manual
> configuration thus far.
>
> On Jul 27, 2015, at 14:02, Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 11:56 AM, Jason Hellenthal <jhellenthal@dataix.ne=
t>
> wrote:
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> Matter of fact =E2=80=A6 could someone commit this ?
>
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D156675
>
>
> No clue why it was closed for something that is so simple to do.
>
>
> =E2=80=8BIt was already merged (R=E2=80=8B223858).  Looking at /etc/netwo=
rk.subr on a
> 10.0-RELEASE system shows the eval line.  So, it looks like one can just
> add " description something cool to describe interface" to  =E2=80=8Bthe =
end of the
> ifconfig_IF=3D line.
>
> Not as neat and organised as having a separate ifconfig_IF_description
> variable to set, but still very much workable.
>
> Thanks for the pointer in the right direction.  Now to play with it at
> work.  :)
>
> - --
> Freddie Cash
> fjwcash@gmail.com
>
>
> - --
>  Jason Hellenthal
>  JJH48-ARIN
>
>
>
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