Re: wg ifconfing control

Reply: Bertrand Petit : "Re: wg ifconfing control"
In reply to: Daniel Lovasko : "wg ifconfing control"
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk_at_phk.freebsd.dk>
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2025 08:24:08 UTC

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Daniel Lovasko writes:

> I noticed that OpenBSD has added the ability to control the WireGuard
> interfaces through ifconfig.

Purely as a matter of code-quality:

Why on Earth would we want to cram even more into ifconfig ?

Isn't that program already horrible and complex enough, in terms
of source code, manual page and command line options ?

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