Re: dragonfly pdf documentation

[Emiel Kollof <coolvibe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 29 March 2005 18:52, Bill Hacker wrote:
> Marcin Jessa wrote:
> > I am not sure if DragonflyBSD implemented that yet but on FreeBSD you can
> > change device names, e.g:
> >
> > [root@urukhai:~]# ifconfig -l
> > ath0 fxp0 pfsync0 pflog0 lo0
> > [root@urukhai:~]# ifconfig ath0 name atheros
> > [root@urukhai:~]# ifconfig -l
> > atheros fxp0 pfsync0 pflog0 lo0
>
> Doesn't work here - latest production FreeBSD
> (4.11-STABLE) of 26 MAR 05.

I think we (DragonFly) are the only ones that can do it at the moment. I 
remember hunting for security flaws in there together with Hiten (e.g. put 
escape sequences in the interface name).

Cheers,
Emiel
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