The following reply was made to PR kern/9400; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Soren Jacobsen <snj@netbsd.org>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: PR/9400 CVS commit: [netbsd-2] src/sbin/ifconfig
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 01:36:26 +0000 (UTC)

 Module Name:	src
 Committed By:	snj
 Date:		Sun Jul 24 01:36:26 UTC 2005
 
 Modified Files:
 	src/sbin/ifconfig [netbsd-2]: ifconfig.c
 
 Log Message:
 Pull up revision 1.142 (requested by riz in ticket #5517):
 The change in revision 1.38 (in 1997!) was wrong.  If we don't want the kernel
 to automatically bring up interfaces, then we should move that code into
 ifconfig(8) and out of the kernel, not cycle the interface up and down.  Fixes
 PR 9400 -- ifconfig(8) was not working as documented.
 
 
 To generate a diff of this commit:
 cvs rdiff -r1.141 -r1.141.4.1 src/sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.c
 
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