7.0 - ifconfig create is not working as expected?

[Brooks Davis]

On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 02:23:20PM +0100, Miroslav Lachman wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 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.

-- Brooks
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