How not allow setting ip changes interface down status?

[Jason Hellenthal]

Off the top of my head I don't know of another OS that does this.

But yes agreed changing that behavior would probably effect a lot of people in a negative way at this point.

Not to mention script breakage.

But a tunable in the stack somewhere would be awesome to change this behavior. Either interface specific or global or both.

Sometimes installing a new faucet you don't want the water to run until all the nuts, bolts and washers are installed.

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On Jun 16, 2013, at 12:50, Jack Vogel <jfvogel at gmail.com> wrote:

> How is adding a small token 'down' with the command a 'PITA',
> seems completely reasonable to me? Further, if you changed it
> so if didn't bring the interface up you'd probably have a bunch of
> people complain because that was the expected behavior :)
> 
> Jack
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 2:28 AM, Jason Hellenthal <jhellenthal at dataix.net> wrote:
>> Seconded.
>> 
>> But to answer you must specify "down" with every command.
>> 
>> ifconfig wlan0 inet ipa.ddr.her.e/24 down
>> 
>> It's a PITA
>> 
>> --
>>  Jason Hellenthal
>>  Inbox: jhellenthal at DataIX.net
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>> 
>> 
>> On Jun 16, 2013, at 3:48, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> 
>> > That'd actually be nice to have. I've noticed this with wifi and it's
>> > irritating.
>> >
>> >
>> > adrian
>> >
>> > On 15 June 2013 23:59, h bagade <bagadeh at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> Hi all,
>> >>
>> >> I want to know if there is any way to change the current freebsd behavior
>> >> when setting interface ip address. In current method, when assigning ip
>> >> address to an interface, the interface is set to UP. I need not allowing
>> >> this change to be done! If an interface is in down state, setting ip
>> >> address doesn't change its sate.
>> >>
>> >> I'm ready to hear your ideas on my question and what's the pros and cons of
>> >> the change I'm going to make.
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