It was a bit of a battle getting here ("dhcp" did it, but the others didn't,
and some people complained it changed their configs).
Yes, it can be documented now.
Klemens Nanni wrote:
> Since march 2021 setting AUTOCONF{4,6} sets UP as well unconditionally.
> I have lots of hostname.if files containing only "inet6 autoconf"
> without "up" and it works, but I noticed this isn't documented anywhere.
>
> Neither do we remove UP and/or RUNNING on `-autoconf' and neither do we
> document this.
>
> This is a good start, I think.
>
>
> Feedback? OK?
>
> Index: ifconfig.8
> ===
> RCS file: /cvs/src/sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8,v
> retrieving revision 1.379
> diff -u -p -r1.379 ifconfig.8
> --- ifconfig.811 Nov 2021 09:39:16 - 1.379
> +++ ifconfig.813 Nov 2021 23:01:33 -
> @@ -163,6 +163,9 @@ automatically configures IPv4 addresses
> for interfaces with
> .Sy AUTOCONF4
> set.
> +.Pp
> +Automatically mark the interface as
> +.Dq up .
> .It Cm -autoconf
> Unset the
> .Sy AUTOCONF4
>
