HEADSUP: OpenBSD dhclient incoming

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 15:05 -0700, Brooks Davis wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 02:04:04PM -0700, David Wolfskill wrote:
> > >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.

<thinking outside the box>
ifconfig_="...defaults..."
</>

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electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon univ.         KF8NH