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bin/53082: ifconfig(8) option: enable/disable all interface capabilities
>Number: 53082
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: ifconfig(8) option: enable/disable all interface capabilities
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: bin-bug-people
>State: open
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Thu Mar 08 19:15:00 +0000 2018
>Originator: Martin Husemann
>Release: NetBSD 8.99.12
>Organization:
The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
>Environment:
System: NetBSD night-owl.duskware.de 8.99.12 NetBSD 8.99.12 (NIGHT-OWL) #587: Wed Mar 7 11:44:31 CET 2018 martin%night-owl.duskware.de@localhost:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/NIGHT-OWL amd64
Architecture: x86_64
Machine: amd64
>Description:
Some network interface have strange sets of capabilities.
An example:
cnmac1: flags=0x8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
capabilities=15500<IP4CSUM_Rx,TCP4CSUM_Rx,UDP4CSUM_Rx,TCP6CSUM_Rx>
capabilities=15500<UDP6CSUM_Rx>
enabled=0
ec_capabilities=1<VLAN_MTU>
ec_enabled=0
address: 04:18:d6:f0:4b:e5
media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
status: no carrier
Now to enable all these offload options, I have to use something like:
ifconfig_cnmac0="udp4csum-rx tcp4csum-rx udp6csum-rx tcp6csum-rx ip4csum-rx"
in /etc/rc.conf (or the equivalent /etc/ifconfig.cnmac0 file).
Sometimes the exact flags change over time when the driver gets fixed
or enhanced.
It would be very convenient to have a shortcut in ifconfig that allows
to enable or disable all existing capabilites with a single command,
like:
ifconfig cnmac1 enable-all
ifconfig cnmac1 disable-all
>How-To-Repeat:
n/a
>Fix:
n/a
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