On 17:36, Sat 25 Mar 06, joerg@britannica.bec.de wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 04:31:29PM +0000, Marcin Jessa wrote:
> > The thing is most people seem to want to be able to replace 
> > the old behaviour of ifconfig which requires -a flag to list all the devices
> > with just ifconfig as on most of the other open source operating systems.
> > Is there any reason we still keep this rather annoying behaviour and what
> > do you guys think about this change?
> 
> I think the default listening of crypto keys and (in the future) CARP
> passwords should be disabled, before ifconfig -a can be the default.
> Otherwise I'd prefer that as well.
> 

Using ifconfig -a doesn't show CARP passwords. Infact, the ifconfig code
doesn't show them at all (I'm taking about the CARP patch ifconfig).

Example:

# ifconfig -a                                                                                                                                         
rtk0: flags=8b43<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,ALLMULTI,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu
1500
        address: 00:50:fc:31:cd:e0
        media: Ethernet 100baseTX
        status: active
        inet 192.168.1.6 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
        inet6 fe80::250:fcff:fe31:cde0%rtk0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
lo0: flags=8009<UP,LOOPBACK,MULTICAST> mtu 33192
        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
        inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
        inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
carp0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        carp: MASTER carpdev rtk0 vhid 1 advbase 1 advskew 100
        address: 00:00:5e:00:01:01
        inet 192.168.1.10 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
#

(The password for your information on the CARP interface is 'carpy')

Cheers,
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		Liam J. Foy
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