* Claudio Jeker <cjeker@diehard.n-r-g.com> [2010-04-19 18:40]:
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> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 04:35:31PM +0200, Henning Brauer wrote:
> > * Gregory Edigarov <greg@bestnet.kharkov.ua> [2010-04-19 14:36]:
> > > On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:18:02 +0200
> > > Henning Brauer <lists-openbsdtech@bsws.de> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > what problem does that solve?
> > > > specifically, what problem does this solve that is not solved by
> > > > interface groups?
> > > sometimes it is better and necessary to have interfaces named under one
> > > standartized name like fether0... fetherN for example 
> > 
> > ifconfig em0 group fether0
> > 
> > done
> > 
> 
> Nice try but ifconfig will not allow that:
> ifconfig: setifgroup: group names may not end in a digit

how should I know, I just wrote the code ;(

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> I think there is a good reason we do not let groups be like interface
> names.

ack.

but the basic concept still stands, use (probably single-member)
groups as "aliases" for interfaces.

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