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Re: wiconfig(8) and non-wi(4) 802.11 drivers



> It is not worth your time to emulate wi(4).  wiconfig(8) is overdue
> to be deleted.  Some people depended on it to do some thing that
> ifconfig(8) now does, such as change the MAC address.  (Perhaps
> people still use it to fiddle with the "authentication mode", too?
> It should be easy enough to support that in ifconfig(8).)

Surely we should be moving things _out of_, not _into_ ifconfig?  It
already has way too many special cases that belong in per-device config
programs (eg, the vlan and vlanif keywords, which exist solely for
vlan(4) and which really belong in a vlanconfig of some sort).

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