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 _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"