Re: extensible ifconfig

[Pierre Pronchery <khorben%defora.org@localhost>]

On 2008-05-16, David Young <dyoung%pobox.com@localhost> wrote:
> On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 06:26:18PM +0200, Pierre Pronchery wrote:
>> David Young wrote:
>> > I have refactored ifconfig to get rid of many global variables
>> > and to improve extensibility.  Please apply the patch,
>> > ftp://cuw.ojctech.com/users/netbsd-81aa8ffc/ifconfig.patch, and test!
>> > 
>> > I have lightly tested IPv4, IPv6, 802.11, tunnel, and media configuration.
>> > I especially need your help to test AppleTalk, ISO, carp(4), agr(4),
>> > and vlan(4) configuration.
>> 
>> With -current as of May 9th, I get this on my sparc64 machine:
>> # ifconfig vlan0 vlan 1 vlanif hme0
>> ifconfig: SIOCAIFADDR: Address family not supported by protocol family
>> 
>> This worked with the same kernel, before updating the userland (which
>> was months old).
>> 
>> Can this be related to your latest changes?
>
> Thanks for the report.  Update to src/sbin/ifconfig/vlan.c revision 1.9.
> I believe that will fix it.

It does, thanks!

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khorben