Subject: Re: /etc/ifconfig.foo enhancement
To: Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun@iijlab.net>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
List: tech-net
Date: 01/11/2001 08:28:46
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 07:44:05PM +0900, Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino wrote:

 > 	the attached patch will allow two things in /etc/ifconfig.*:
 > 	- allow comments started by "#"
 > 	- allow command invocation started by "!"

I think it's seriously cool.  I wouldn't mind if it replaced the
dhclient rc.d script, in fact.

Perhaps we could have an rc.subr function that did the ifconfig.foo
processing, so that a program that catches an event can run a script
that invokes ifconfig.foo for a particular interface?

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>