On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Brooks Davis wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 05:08:23PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
> > This is a bad breakage of POLA!
>
> It's been in stable for two months with only a few of people asking
> about it and non of them asking to have it removed or changed that I
> saw. It probalby would have been better to continue to clone the
> requested number of interfaces at runtime in -stable, but since we've
> released, it's a bit late. :-|
The sample in the daemon-news article no longer works..
>
> > All old gif scripts are now broken (grumble)
>
> It was thought that most people were using the rc.conf interface which
> was fixed. The lack of serious complaints seemed bare that out.
>
> > I think whoever made this change needs to put big
> > comments about how to do this in gif(4) and gifconfig(8)
>
> How would this do (as the second paragraph in gif(8)):
>
> gif interfaces are allocated at runtime using interface cloning. This is
> most easily done with the ifconfig(8) create command.
there is no gif(8)
but this could do with being in gif(4)
(and in gifconfig(8))
>
> -- Brooks
>
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