On 4-2-2011 13:32, Henning Brauer wrote:
> * Camiel Dobbelaar <c...@sentia.nl> [2011-02-04 13:21]:
>> With hundreds of (vlan) interfaces, a shutdown takes quite a while.
>> Fix below.
> 
> hmm. this relies on all carp interfaces being in the carp interface
> group. while that is the default, it is not necessarily so.

I didn't know that a groupname takes precendence, neither did the
manpage.  :-)

--
Cam
Index: ifconfig.8
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8,v
retrieving revision 1.212
diff -u -r1.212 ifconfig.8
--- ifconfig.8  23 Dec 2010 08:54:59 -0000      1.212
+++ ifconfig.8  4 Feb 2011 13:32:21 -0000
@@ -97,11 +97,15 @@
 .Dq en0 .
 If no optional parameters are supplied, this string can instead be just
 .Dq name .
-In this case, all interfaces of that type will be displayed.
+If an interface group with that name exists, all interfaces in the group
+will be shown.
+Otherwise, 
+.Dq name
+is treated as a type and all interfaces of that type will be displayed.
 For example,
-.Dq carp
+.Dq fxp
 will display the current configuration of all
-.Xr carp 4
+.Xr fxp 4
 interfaces.
 .It Ar address_family
 Specifies the address family

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