On 2 Jun 2009, at 21:20, Doug Barton wrote:
Up till Sunday in 8-current, and for a long time in general
network.subr (part of the rc.d system) has emitted a warning that
values of network_interfaces other than AUTO are deprecated. I removed
that warning in HEAD Sunday, and there is no a discussion about
whether or not it should be put back, and whether or not there is any
need for the user to specify the list of network interfaces at all.
Well, I do.
I only want to configure only the interfaces that are connected and
that I know about. especially in combination with IPv6 there is a nit
that you'll get autoconfiguration for all interfaces unless they are
all explicitly configured.
e.g. bge0 connected, bge1 not, v6 autoconf on the lan. if I don't do a
ipv6_ifconfig_bge1="down" and nail network_interfaces to bge0 bge1 lo0
only I'll get autoconfiguration of v6 where I don't want it to be.
Being a bit of my own devils advocate here, network_interfaces="AUTO"
is already true for ipv6. with network_interfaces="bge0 lo0"
network.subr nevertheless sees bge1, and no configuration and takes
the responsibility of starting ipv6 autoconfiguration for it.
If you use a value of network_interfaces other than AUTO please speak
up so that we can make an intelligent decision about this issue.
you want to have a system where one still can control which interfaces
are explicitly configured or skipped, with no side effects of default
actions
Thanks,
Doug
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Regards,
Ruben
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