Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 18:45:25 +0800 From: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@kuzbass.ru> To: "Bruce M. Simpson" <bms@FreeBSD.org> Cc: FreeBSD-Net mailing list <freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org>, Brooks Davis <brooks@FreeBSD.org>, Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> Subject: Re: 7.0 - ifconfig create is not working as expected? Message-ID: <20080330104525.GA57135@svzserv.kemerovo.su> In-Reply-To: <47EF69F0.1050304@FreeBSD.org> References: <47EE42C8.3070100@quip.cz> <20080329204344.GA66910@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> <20080330072137.GA35435@svzserv.kemerovo.su> <47EF69F0.1050304@FreeBSD.org>
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> >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
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