On Wed, Oct 07, 2020 at 01:01:29PM +0200, Claudio Jeker wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 07, 2020 at 12:27:04PM +0200, Denis Fondras wrote:
> > All tunnels & point-to-point addresses are separated by "->" but inet.
> > 
> > Before :
> > gre0: flags=8051<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1476
> >         index 6 priority 0 llprio 6
> >     encap: vnetid none txprio payload rxprio packet
> >     groups: gre
> >     tunnel: inet 192.0.2.1 -> 198.51.100.1 ttl 64 nodf ecn
> >     inet 172.16.0.1 --> 172.16.0.2 netmask 0xffff0000
> >     inet6 fe80::c23f:d5ff:fe63:ffe3%gre0 ->  prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x6
> >     inet6 2001:db8::1 -> 2001:db8::2 prefixlen 128
> > 
> > After :
> > gre0: flags=8051<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1476
> >         index 6 priority 0 llprio 6
> >     encap: vnetid none txprio payload rxprio packet
> >     groups: gre
> >     tunnel: inet 192.0.2.1 -> 198.51.100.1 ttl 64 nodf ecn
> >     inet 172.16.0.1 -> 172.16.0.2 netmask 0xffff0000
> >     inet6 fe80::c23f:d5ff:fe63:ffe3%gre0 ->  prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x6
> >     inet6 2001:db8::1 -> 2001:db8::2 prefixlen 128
> > 
> > OK ?
> 
> Isn't it the other way around, that originally --> was used but then IPv6
> came and introduced -> which was copied around?
> 
> I like --> a bit better since it stands a bit more out.
> 

I am totally fine with going for "-->"


Index: ifconfig.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.c,v
retrieving revision 1.426
diff -u -p -r1.426 ifconfig.c
--- ifconfig.c  15 Sep 2020 15:23:11 -0000      1.426
+++ ifconfig.c  7 Oct 2020 11:54:12 -0000
@@ -3219,7 +3219,7 @@ print_tunnel(const struct if_laddrreq *r
                    0, 0, niflag) != 0)
                        strlcpy(pdstaddr, "<error>", sizeof(pdstaddr));
 
-               printf(" -> %s", pdstaddr);
+               printf(" --> %s", pdstaddr);
 
                switch (req->dstaddr.ss_family) {
                case AF_INET:
@@ -3635,7 +3635,7 @@ in6_alias(struct in6_ifreq *creq)
                if (getnameinfo((struct sockaddr *)sin6, sin6->sin6_len,
                    hbuf, sizeof(hbuf), NULL, 0, niflag) != 0)
                        strlcpy(hbuf, "", sizeof hbuf);
-               printf(" -> %s", hbuf);
+               printf(" --> %s", hbuf);
        }
 
        (void) memset(&ifr6, 0, sizeof(ifr6));

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