Chapter 14 Security

Bill Moran wmoran at potentialtech.com
Tue Jul 13 14:34:35 PDT 2004


"Steve Bertrand" <steveb at eagle.ca> wrote:

> > The article requires the use of the command "gifconfig" which does not
> > exit on my FreeBSD 5.2.1 machine.  Is this a typo in the manual, or have
> > I missed something?
> 
> Just did a quick google for "no gifconfig freebsd 5", and in the sparc64
> relnotes, I found this:
> 
> "gifconfig(8) is obsolete and has been removed. Its functionality is now
> handled by the tunnel and deletetunnel commands of  ifconfig(8)."
> 
> Here's the link. If it's taken out of sparc, I'm assuming that it's
> obsolete for the others as well...
> 
> http://jamesthornton.com/freebsd/5.0/relnotes-sparc64.html

This should probably be passed on to the doc team.  Anyone have time to
put together a patch to update the handbook?

[doc team CCed]

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Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
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