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

[Ceri Davies]

On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 06:50:47AM +0000, Brooks Davis wrote:
> brooks      2006-04-13 06:50:47 UTC
> 
>   FreeBSD src repository
> 
>   Modified files:
>     etc                  network.subr 
>     etc/defaults         rc.conf 
>     share/man/man5       rc.conf.5 
>   Log:
>   Commit the various network interface configutation updates I've been
>   working on.
>     1) Make it possible to configure interfaces with certain characters in
>        their names that aren't valid in shell variables.  Currently supported
>        characters are ".-/+".  They are converted into '_' characters.
>     2) Replace nearly all eval statements in network.subr with a new
>        function get_if_var which substitues an interface name (after the
>        translations above) for "IF" in a variable name.
>     3) Fix list_net_interfaces() in the nodhcp case.
>     4) Allow the administrator to specify if dhclient should be started
>        when /etc/rc.d/netif configures the interface or only by devd.
>        This can be set on both a per interface and system wide basis.

> | @@ -95,6 +95,8 @@ nisdomainname="NO"		# Set to NIS domain 
> |  dhclient_program="/sbin/dhclient"	# Path to dhcp client program.
> |  dhclient_flags=""		# Additional flags to pass to dhcp client.
> |  background_dhclient="NO"	# Start dhcp client in the background.
> | +syncronous_dhclient="YES"	# Start dhclient directly on configured
> | +				# interfaces during startup.

I had planned to be more tactful, but this made me smile:

% dict syncronous
1 definition found

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  syncronous
       
          <spelling> It's spelled "{synchronous}".
       
          (1996-12-13)
       
       
Ceri
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That must be wonderful!  I don't understand it at all.
                                                  -- Moliere
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