On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 12:02:38PM -0800, Brooks Davis wrote:
> The patch is split into cleanups that apply to the tree regardless of
> this functional change and the actual functional changes. You will need
> to use "patch -p2" to apply the patch due to they way I generated it
> from my perforce
The following patch implements network interface renaming via:
ifconfig name
The mechanism is to change if_xname in the ifp and then to adjust the
link level address sockaddr_dl appropriatly. One question I do have is
if locking the ifa is sufficent or if we need to force the user to down
the