Re: ifconfig(8) refactoring -- YACC grammar now online

From: Bruce M Simpson (bms_at_spc.org)
Date: 11/30/03

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    Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:58:05 +0000
To: Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org>

    On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 01:12:42PM +0100, Andre Oppermann wrote:
    > What I've thinking about a lot is to make the networking system and
    > ifconfig sort of class-based like newbus and geom.

    Look at: http://people.freebsd.org/~bms/dump/nifconfig/nifconfig-design.txt

    There is a pending change to if_gre to enable it to be easily classified
    in this way; ifconfig would simply query the interface for its if_type. This
    is one way to do it without having to change struct ifnet. We could add a
    new field, but avoiding changing the ABI is a Good Thing.

    BMS
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