HEADSUP: OpenBSD dhclient incoming

[Brooks Davis]

On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 02:04:04PM -0700, David Wolfskill wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 01:50:33PM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote:
> > ...
>  
> > Agreed.  There's actually some demand for a default for wired interfaces
> > as well.  If nothing else I know the EmuLab people would like one
> > so they didn't have to use their own scripts to configure all the
> > interfaces.  I've thought about it a bit.  I'm leaning towards a
> > default_ifconfig variable plus a new magic ifconfig_<if> option NONE to
> > cause the default option not to be used.
> 
> >From the perspective that NIC-specific variables are of the form
> "ifconfig_${NIC}" (e.g., ifconfig_lo0; ifconfig_ed0; ifconfig_xl0),
> might it make at least as much sense to call it "ifconfig_default" (or
> something similar)?

I'm divided on that one.  The problem is that users may want to name an
interface "default" and this would break that.  I like the symetry and
the sort order of ifconfig_default, but I'm concerned about exceptions
to the namespace as well.  I'm somewhat tempted by ifconfig_DEFAULT.

-- Brooks

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