xxconfig for if_bridge

[Brooks Davis]

On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 02:01:40PM +1200, Andrew Thompson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> The if_bridge code that will soon be committed can be configured using
> either brconfig or ifconfig.
> 
> http://people.freebsd.org/~thompsa/
> 
> Only one tool will be committed and I would like to get opinions on
> which one ppl prefer
> 
> brconfig
>  - new util to /sbin
>  + same as NetBSD/OpenBSD
>  - would require new rc.d script and rc.conf keywords
>  
> ifconfig (patched for if_bridge)
>  + one tool to rule them all
>  + seamless with rc.conf, ifconfig_bridge0="..."
>  - diverges from the other BSDs

ifconfig is strongly prefered.  With Sam's extensable ifconfig in
current, nearly all the various network related *config/*control
commands should be considered deprecated.  The preliforation of xxconfig
commands stems more form the difficulty of hacking ifconfig then any
good reason, IMO.

-- Brooks

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