cvs commit: src/etc network.subr src/etc/defaults rc.conf src/share/man/man5 rc.conf.5

Brooks Davis brooks at one-eyed-alien.net
Thu Apr 13 18:24:16 UTC 2006


On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 11:20:21AM +0300, Dmitry Pryanishnikov wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> 
> On Thu, 13 Apr 2006, Anton Yuzhaninov wrote:
> >BD>     1) Make it possible to configure interfaces with certain 
> >characters in
> >BD>        their names that aren't valid in shell variables.  Currently 
> >supported
> >BD>        characters are ".-/+".  They are converted into '_' characters.
> >
> >Is it mean, that now possible to write in rc.conf
> >
> >cloned_interfaces="fxp0.10"
> >ifconfig_fxp0.10="inet 192.168.1.1/24"
> ---------------^
> 
>  This variable name is illegal. I think that intention of this commit is to
> allow the following instead:
> 
> ifconfig_fxp0_10="inet 192.168.1.1/24"
> 
> as CVS log says "They are converted into '_' characters".

Err, yes.  The plan is to convert what ever characters are useful in
practice into '_' characters.  My previous response was the result if
insufficent sleep. :)

-- Brooks

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