Subject: Re: Ifconfig
To: NetBSD-userlevel <tech-userlevel@netbsd.org>
From: None <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 03/25/2006 17:36:15
On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 04:31:29PM +0000, Marcin Jessa wrote:
> The thing is most people seem to want to be able to replace 
> the old behaviour of ifconfig which requires -a flag to list all the devices
> with just ifconfig as on most of the other open source operating systems.
> Is there any reason we still keep this rather annoying behaviour and what
> do you guys think about this change?

I think the default listening of crypto keys and (in the future) CARP
passwords should be disabled, before ifconfig -a can be the default.
Otherwise I'd prefer that as well.

Joerg