svn commit: r222515 - in head/etc: . defaults

[Garrett Cooper]

On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 5:25 PM, Bjoern A. Zeeb <bz at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Author: bz
> Date: Tue May 31 00:25:52 2011
> New Revision: 222515
> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/222515
>
> Log:
>  No logner set an IPv4 loopback address by default in defaults/rc.conf.
>  If not specified, network.subr will add it automatically if we have
>  INET support (1).
>
>  In network.subr only call the address family up/down functions
>  if the respective AF is available.
>
>  Switch to new kern.features variables for inet and inet6 as the
>  inet sysctl tree is also available for IPv6-only kernels leading
>  to unexpected results.

    Please document this change in UPDATING (requiring ifconfig_lo0 in
rc.conf). It breaks standard IPv4 only configurations out of the box.
Thanks,
-Garrett