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
the corresponding manpage has been committed.
The rest of "vlan" words, which are refering
to the technology itself, should be capitalized.
MFC after: 1 week
reorganize the printing of the interface name when using wildcard
cloning so it is not printed if it we either immediately rename or
destroy the interface.
Reviewed by: ru
Setting this flag on an ethernet interface blocks transmission of packets
and discards incoming packets after BPF processing.
This is useful if you want to monitor network trafic but not interact
with the network in question.
Sponsored by: http://www.babeltech.dk
Also, for all interfaces in this mode pass all ethernet frames to upper layer,
even those not addressed to our own MAC, which allows packets encapsulated
in those frames be processed with packet filters (ipfw(8) et al).
Emphatically requested by: Anton Turygin <pa3op@ukr-link.net>
Valuable suggestions by: fenner
that could be used to set/get arbitrary length link level
addresses. Alias "lladdr" parameter and "ether" family
to the new "link" family for backward compatibility.
PR: bin/31476
MFC after: 1 week
The first "synopsis" example has a "[/prefixlength]" which shouldn't
be there, since that stuff is part of the preceeding "address" as is
explained in the description of "address".
(The way it is now, 192.168.0.1/16/prefixlength would be a proper
operand. Note that "prefixlength" is not mentioned by name anywhere.)
PR: 32462
Submitted by: Gary W. Swearingen <swear@blarg.net>
