Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 15:21:37 +0800 From: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@kuzbass.ru> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD-Net mailing list <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>, Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> Subject: Re: 7.0 - ifconfig create is not working as expected? Message-ID: <20080330072137.GA35435@svzserv.kemerovo.su> In-Reply-To: <20080329204344.GA66910@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> References: <47EE42C8.3070100@quip.cz> <20080329204344.GA66910@lor.one-eyed-alien.net>
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On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 03:43:44PM -0500, Brooks Davis wrote: > > I was using following command in FreeBSD 6.2: > > # ifconfig lo1 create inet 172.16.16.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 > > In FreeBSD 7.0 I got an error: > > # ifconfig lo1 create inet 172.16.16.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 > > ifconfig: inet: bad value > > But it is working splitted in to two commands: > > # ifconfig lo1 create > > # ifconfig lo1 inet 172.16.16.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 > > Is this expected behavior or should I file a PR? > This expected. There's some argument it's wrong, but filing a PR is > unlikely to cause it to change any time soon. 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? Eugene Grosbein
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