ifconfig(8) printing the hwaddr is only really useful if it differs from
the link layer address.
Reported by: jhb
Reviewed by: rpokala
Approved by: rstone (mentor)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D11777
The MAC address reported by `ifconfig ${nic} ether' does not always match
the address in the hardware, as reported by the driver during attach. In
particular, NICs which are components of a lagg(4) interface all report the
same MAC.
When attaching, the NIC driver passes the MAC address it read from the
hardware as an argument to ether_ifattach(). Keep a second copy of it, and
create ioctl(SIOCGHWADDR) to return it. Teach `ifconfig' to report it along
with the active MAC address.
PR: 194386
Reviewed by: glebius
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: Panasas
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D10609
Renumber cluase 4 to 3, per what everybody else did when BSD granted
them permission to remove clause 3. My insistance on keeping the same
numbering for legal reasons is too pedantic, so give up on that point.
Submitted by: Jan Schaumann <jschauma@stevens.edu>
Pull Request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/pull/96
specified by the -f flag or IFCONFIG_FORMAT environment variable, the user
can request that inet4 subnet masks be printed in CIDR or dotted-quad
notation, in addition to the traditional hex output.
inet6 prefixes can be printed in CIDR as well.
For more documentation see the ifconfig(8) man page.
PR: 169072
Requested by: seanc, marcel, brd, many others
Reviewed by: gnn, jhb (earlier version)
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: ScaleEngine Inc.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2856
use a different interface type (IFT_L2VLAN vs IFT_ETHER). Treat IFT_L2VLAN
interfaces like IFT_ETHER interfaces when handling link layer addresses.
Reviewed by: syrinx (bsnmpd)
MFC after: 1 week
special-purpose code to display status for an interface for
state that was not address-oriented. This status reporting
was merged in to the address-oriented status reporting but
did not work for link address reporting (as discovered with
fwip interfaces). Correct this mis-merge and eliminate the
bogus kludge that was used for link-level address reporting.
o add an af_other_status method for an address family for
reporting status of things like media, vlan, etc.
o call the af_other_status methods after reporting address
status for an interface
o special-case link address status; when reporting all
status for an interface invoke it specially prior to
reporting af_other_status methods (since it requires the
sockaddr_dl that is passed in to status separately from
the rtmsg address state)
o correct the calling convention for link address status;
don't cast types, construct the proper parameter
This fixes ifconfig on fwip interfaces.
o break per-address family support out into separate files
o modularize per-address family and functional operations using
a registration mechanism; this permits configuration according
to which files you include (but beware that order of the files
is important to insure backwards compatibility)
o many cleanups to eliminate incestuous behaviour, global variables,
and poor coding practices (still much more to fix)
The original motivation of this work was to support dynamic addition
of functionality based on the interface so we can eliminate the various
little control programs and so that vendors can distribute ifconfig
plugins that support their in-kernel code. That work is still to be
completed.
o Update 802.11 support for all the new net80211 functionality; some
of these operations (e.g. list *) may be better suited in a different
program
