Review requested: revised patch for bin/41647

[Ruslan Ermilov]

On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 11:55:53AM +0100, Bruce M Simpson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It should be possible to set the link layer address of an interface whilst
> also setting the IP address. Here's a revised patch for ifconfig(8) to
> add this functionality (against HEAD) based on the one in the PR.
> 
> There is a problem in that applying this patch modifies syntax such that
> statements of the form 'ifconfig xl0 ether' to view the ethernet address
> of an interface will no longer work. Using ifconfig(8) on its own or with
> the -a switch will dump this information however.
> 
> Feedback anyone?
> BMS

Please don't, this would be backwards.  Please see the commit log for
ifconfig/ifconfig.c,v 1.73.


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov		Sysadmin and DBA,
ru at sunbay.com		Sunbay Software Ltd,
ru at FreeBSD.org		FreeBSD committer
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