This allows you to set ether addresses with 'ifconfig ether'. Also, use
some saner socket address families that allow several special case tests
to be removed.
address on an interface. This basically allows you to do what my
little setmac module/utility does via ifconfig. This involves the
following changes:
socket.h: define SIOCSIFLLADDR
if.c: add support for SIOCSIFLLADDR, which resets the values in
the arpcom struct and sockaddr_dl for the specified interface.
Note that if the interface is already up, we need to down/up
it in order to program the underlying hardware's receive filter.
ifconfig.c: add lladdr command
ifconfig.8: document lladdr command
You can now force the MAC address on any ethernet interface to be
whatever you want. (The change is not sticky across reboots of course:
we don't actually reprogram the EEPROM or anything.) Actually, you
can reprogram the MAC address on other kinds of interfaces too; this
shouldn't be ethernet-specific (though at the moment it's limited to
6 bytes of address data).
Nobody ran up to me and said "this is the politically correct way to
do this!" so I don't want to hear any complaints from people who think
I could have done it more elegantly. Consider yourselves lucky I didn't
do it by having ifconfig tread all over /dev/kmem.
Improve compatibility with BSD/OS, and also more accurately reflect that
IP aliases aren't really any different than the primary IP address on an
interface.
Reviewed by: dcs
Approved by: jkh
IPv6 scoped addr display is not yet supported by ifconfig
and route. Now almost of IPv6 apps support it, so its support
in ifconfig and route is important to keep consisetncy, and
to avoid user confusion.
Approved by: jkh
packet divert at kernel for IPv6/IPv4 translater daemon
This includes queue related patch submitted by jburkhol@home.com.
Submitted by: queue related patch from jburkhol@home.com
Reviewed by: freebsd-arch, cvs-committers
Obtained from: KAME project
we're about to operate on, try to load one. Don't complain if the
load fails, and always press on regardless (there may not be a module
suitable or required).
With the renaming of the PCI ethernet driver modules and the addition
of appropriate miibus dependancies on those modules that need it, it is
now no longer necessary to compile many ethernet drivers into the kernel;
they will be loaded on demand the first time they are ifconfig'ed.
Inspiration from: mount
Reviewed by: obrien
This is inteded for to allow ifconfig to print various unstructured
information from an interface.
The data is returned from the kernel in ASCII form, see the comment in
if.h for some technicalities.
Canonical cut&paste example to be found in if_tun.c
Initial use:
Now tun* interfaces tell the PID of the process which opened them.
Future uses could be (volounteers welcome!):
Have ppp/slip interfaces tell which tty they use.
Make sync interfaces return their media state: red/yellow/blue
alarm, timeslot assignment and so on.
Make ethernets warn about missing heartbeats and/or cables
This means that the driver will add/delete routes when it knows it is
up/down, rather than have the generic code belive it is up if configured.
This is probably most useful for serial lines, although many PHY chips
could probably tell us if we're connected to the cable/hub as well.
them as ints. Among other bugs, doing so at best caused benign
overflow followed by fatal sign extension on machines with 32-bit
ints and 64-bit longs.
place rather than updating the main loop's index variables from within
a subroutine and other revolting things like that. Move some more
globals into local variables.
program and it's use of global variables. Somehow, I managed to miss the
most obvious case.. "ifconfig ed0 10.0.0.1" failed (no "inet")
Submitted by: dfr
family inet if not specified. (eg: "ifconfig ed0" down would fail because
no family was specified, even though the up/down status is not per family)
Pointed out by: Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De>
