[RFC] ifconfig description

[Arseny Nasokin]

Separate ifconfig_IF_description will be simpler to use.

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On 27 July 2015 at 22:19, Jason Hellenthal <jhellenthal at dataix.net> wrote:

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> Yeah thats pretty much what I’m doing right now. Attempting to match up
> some interfaces and throw a valuable description on each interface. With
> vlan interfaces I have not been successful at anything but manual
> configuration thus far.
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> On Jul 27, 2015, at 14:02, Freddie Cash <fjwcash at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 11:56 AM, Jason Hellenthal <jhellenthal at dataix.net>
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> Matter of fact … could someone commit this ?
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> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=156675
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> No clue why it was closed for something that is so simple to do.
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> ​It was already merged (R​223858).  Looking at /etc/network.subr on a
> 10.0-RELEASE system shows the eval line.  So, it looks like one can just
> add " description something cool to describe interface" to  ​the end of the
> ifconfig_IF= line.
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> Not as neat and organised as having a separate ifconfig_IF_description
> variable to set, but still very much workable.
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> Thanks for the pointer in the right direction.  Now to play with it at
> work.  :)
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