On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 10:30:46PM +0200, Ruben van Staveren wrote: > > On 2 Jun 2009, at 21:20, Doug Barton wrote: > >> Up till Sunday in 8-current, and for a long time in general >> network.subr (part of the rc.d system) has emitted a warning that >> values of network_interfaces other than AUTO are deprecated. I removed >> that warning in HEAD Sunday, and there is no a discussion about >> whether or not it should be put back, and whether or not there is any >> need for the user to specify the list of network interfaces at all. > > Well, I do. > > I only want to configure only the interfaces that are connected and that I > know about. especially in combination with IPv6 there is a nit that you'll > get autoconfiguration for all interfaces unless they are all explicitly > configured. See my other post on why this is a needless worry for the IPv4 case. > e.g. bge0 connected, bge1 not, v6 autoconf on the lan. if I don't do a > ipv6_ifconfig_bge1="down" and nail network_interfaces to bge0 bge1 lo0 only > I'll get autoconfiguration of v6 where I don't want it to be. > > > Being a bit of my own devils advocate here, network_interfaces="AUTO" is > already true for ipv6. with network_interfaces="bge0 lo0" network.subr > nevertheless sees bge1, and no configuration and takes the responsibility > of starting ipv6 autoconfiguration for it. The IPv6 case is clearly a bug. We should really consolidate the two cases and I think there are patches to do so if someone wants to setup up and help get them in. -- Brooks
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