[RFC] ifconfig description

[Jason Hellenthal]

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Yeah thats pretty much what I’m doing right now. Attempting to match up some interfaces and throw a valuable description on each interface. With vlan interfaces I have not been successful at anything but manual configuration thus far.

On Jul 27, 2015, at 14:02, Freddie Cash <fjwcash at gmail.com> wrote:

On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 11:56 AM, Jason Hellenthal <jhellenthal at dataix.net> wrote:
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Matter of fact … could someone commit this ?

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=156675


No clue why it was closed for something that is so simple to do.


​It was already merged (R​223858).  Looking at /etc/network.subr on a 10.0-RELEASE system shows the eval line.  So, it looks like one can just add " description something cool to describe interface" to  ​the end of the ifconfig_IF= line.

Not as neat and organised as having a separate ifconfig_IF_description variable to set, but still very much workable.

Thanks for the pointer in the right direction.  Now to play with it at work.  :)

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 Jason Hellenthal
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