On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 4:27 AM, Joe Holden <li...@rewt.org.uk> wrote:
> Jason Hellenthal wrote: > >> Off the top of my head I don't know of another OS that does this. >> >> But yes agreed changing that behavior would probably effect a lot of >> people in a negative way at this point. >> >> Not to mention script breakage. >> >> But a tunable in the stack somewhere would be awesome to change this >> behavior. Either interface specific or global or both. >> >> Sometimes installing a new faucet you don't want the water to run until >> all the nuts, bolts and washers are installed. >> >> The entire notion is ridiculous, it is quite simple - if the interface > is down, it isn't in the FIB, you can't arbitarily return an error for > setting an IP on an interface that isn't up. > > The last thing we need is yet more nonsense stack changes, allowing 0/8 to > be used was bad enough. > What I've intended to do, as jason is mentioned too, is assigning IP address to the interface but not let it works until a proper time. As I understand there is not any way just set the interface down besides adding IP! Still, any other solution? _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
