Re: HEADSUP: OpenBSD dhclient incoming

From: Brooks Davis <brooks_at_one-eyed-alien.net>
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 10:29:11 -0700
On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 09:55:38AM +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Brooks Davis <brooks_at_one-eyed-alien.net> writes:
> > I'm seriously considering removing the following variables:
> >
> > network_interfaces
> 
> Don't.
> 
> If network_interfaces is left unspecified, the scripts will use
> 'ifconfig -l' and everything is fine provided all the interfaces were
> already attached (i.e. the drivers were compiled into the kernel or
> listed in loader.conf).  This is the common case.
> 
> However, if the driver wasn't already loaded for some reason,
> network_interfaces + ifconfig_foo0 will take care of it.  Without
> network_interfaces, we lose this functionality, for no benefit at all
> to anyone.

I don't buy this.  Removing network_interfaces reduces the amount of
code we need to write and the weird edge cases a fair bit and either
way you have to edit a file to cause the module to load.  Why not edit
/boot/loader.conf instead and actually acknowledge what you are doing?

-- Brooks

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