Re: ifconfig(8) syntax intuitiveness

2005-08-24 Thread Joseph Garcia
Danial Thom wrote: --- Joerg Sonnenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 03:26:17PM +0200, Erik P. Skaalerud wrote: Joseph Garcia wrote: I was using ifconfig when it occurred to me how non-intuitive it is having to use 255.255.255.255 as the netmask when adding an

Re: ifconfig(8) syntax intuitiveness

2005-08-24 Thread Hiten Pandya
Matthew Dillon wrote: :Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: :~ > It's not that easy. This has nothing to do with the interface, but is a :| restriction from the routing stack. Once that restriction goes away, :| there's no reason why aliases wouldn't allow it too. : :That's true, this point isn't exactly an

Re: ifconfig(8) syntax intuitiveness

2005-08-24 Thread Hiten Pandya
Max Okumoto wrote: Has anyone looked at the recent work on ifconfig that Sam Leffler is doing? I thought he was cleaning up alot of the code in there. Max Okumoto The ifconfig in FreeBSD is certainly nice, especially its command parser which I am quite fond of. I am thinking of

Re: ifconfig(8) syntax intuitiveness

2005-08-24 Thread Thomas E. Spanjaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: | On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 04:39:38PM +0200, Thomas E. Spanjaard wrote: |>Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: |>~ > It's not that easy. This has nothing to do with the interface, but is a |>| restriction from the routing stack. Once tha

Re: ifconfig(8) syntax intuitiveness

2005-08-24 Thread Max Okumoto
Matthew Dillon wrote: :Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: :~ > It's not that easy. This has nothing to do with the interface, but is a :| restriction from the routing stack. Once that restriction goes away, :| there's no reason why aliases wouldn't allow it too. : :That's true, this point isn't exactly an

Re: ifconfig(8) syntax intuitiveness

2005-08-24 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: :~ > It's not that easy. This has nothing to do with the interface, but is a :| restriction from the routing stack. Once that restriction goes away, :| there's no reason why aliases wouldn't allow it too. : :That's true, this point isn't exactly an ifconfig issue. Howeve

Re: ifconfig(8) syntax intuitiveness

2005-08-24 Thread Danial Thom
--- Joerg Sonnenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 03:26:17PM +0200, Erik > P. Skaalerud wrote: > > Joseph Garcia wrote: > > >I was using ifconfig when it occurred to me > how non-intuitive it is > > >having to use 255.255.255.255 as the netmask > when adding an address >

Re: ifconfig(8) syntax intuitiveness

2005-08-24 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 04:39:38PM +0200, Thomas E. Spanjaard wrote: > Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > ~ > It's not that easy. This has nothing to do with the interface, but is a > | restriction from the routing stack. Once that restriction goes away, > | there's no reason why aliases wouldn't allow it

Re: ifconfig(8) syntax intuitiveness

2005-08-24 Thread Thomas E. Spanjaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: ~ > It's not that easy. This has nothing to do with the interface, but is a | restriction from the routing stack. Once that restriction goes away, | there's no reason why aliases wouldn't allow it too. That's true, this poin

Re: ifconfig(8) syntax intuitiveness

2005-08-24 Thread Hiten Pandya
Joseph Garcia wrote: Greetings. I just wanted to bounce some ideas off of you guys. It’s petty stuff, but it’s usability feedback nonetheless. First let me start off by quoting the ifcconfig(8) man page: "The ifconfig utility is used to assign an address to a network interface and/or configure

Re: ifconfig(8) syntax intuitiveness

2005-08-24 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 03:26:17PM +0200, Erik P. Skaalerud wrote: > Joseph Garcia wrote: > >I was using ifconfig when it occurred to me how non-intuitive it is > >having to use 255.255.255.255 as the netmask when adding an address > >that is on the same subnet as an address already on the interfac

Re: ifconfig(8) syntax intuitiveness

2005-08-24 Thread Erik P. Skaalerud
Joseph Garcia wrote: I was using ifconfig when it occurred to me how non-intuitive it is having to use 255.255.255.255 as the netmask when adding an address that is on the same subnet as an address already on the interface. For example, if you already have 192.168.0.1/24 on fxp0, then you should

Re: ifconfig(8) syntax intuitiveness

2005-08-24 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
Joseph Garcia wrote: > ifconfig fxp0 add 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 > >instead of: > > ifconfig fxp0 add 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.255 > > Seconded. I fell into this trap more than once when working with FreeBSD.

Re: postgresql80 (was: Re: best autoconf for DragonFly?)

2005-08-24 Thread Tomaž Borštnar
Jeremy C. Reed wrote: Replying to two emails below ... Tomaz Borstnar wrote: checking which template to use... configure: error: 'dragonfly' is not a valid template name. Use 'list' for a list. How did you apply my patch? cd /usr/pkgsrc patch < pkgsrc-databases-postgresql80.diff it went