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ifconfig refactoring for FreeBSD

Dan writes "Based on Sam Leffer's suggestion, Bruce Simpson has been working on refactoring ifconfig(8). ifconfig is a FreeBSD unix utility used to assign an address to a network interface and/or configure network interface parameters. Bruce says that ifconfig has grown increasingly large and become unwieldy. Part of the effort has been to get a handle on all of the options that are currently supported so he has written a YACC grammar for it. He has uploaded some grammer, created a design document and also generated a PDF file you can view which shows you syntax diagrams for each part of the parse tree."

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  1. eye lub j00 4ll by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    eye lub j00 4ll!!

    1. Re:eye lub j00 4ll by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Has anyone else noticed that the BSD boards have a crap ratio of more than 3 troll posts for every 1 BSD-related post?

      Shouldn't this be telling the Slashdot editors something? Anytime I've seen it addressed before, it seems like the BSDers shrug it off as Linux people being frisky but I think they are the ones living in caves.

      Truly BSD was never alive to begin with.

  2. FreeBSD works great for us. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    We have no plans to move away from FreeBSD, look forward to 5.2 Currently our FreeBSD servers handle over 2 Terabytes of web traffic per month, trouble free.

  3. Did he upload some speling, too? by Mordant · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Just checking. ;>

  4. Dem Bones, dem bones, dem dry bones by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's dead, Jim

  5. ifconfig penis0 up by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    A full grown stallion's cock, when fully erect, will measure some two to
    three feet long. It can be three to six inches thick at the base, to about
    two inches thick at the head. Horses are somewhat different from other
    animals in the way their cock head works. When a horse is fully erect and
    excited and ready to mount, his cock head is somewhat pointed and not as
    thick as might be normally observed. This is to facillatate an easier
    entry into the mare. After the horse has entered and reaches a climax the
    head swells (though it is more spongy then hard) into a fist sized mass as
    he ejacultates. It is thought that this serves as a plug to force the
    semen deep into the mare rather then allowing it to leak out. A full grown
    stallion can ejaculate about one cup ( 8 ounces ) of semen. It will take
    quite a few spurts to accomplish this. Each time his tail will raise and
    lower in a brief flick. The first few jets are of a thin to average
    consistency of cum. The final few jets are of a thick gelatinous
    substance... it is thought that this serves to "seal" the mares pussy so
    that the semen has time to do it's thing before leaking out. Horse semen
    is extremely viscous, if you touch your finger to a pool of it you can draw
    a thin string of it five to six feet long! Horse cum has a nice flat taste
    to it...not at all bitter like man's cum. You can easily drink cups of it
    with no discomfort.

    The Mare - how to do it.

    Mares can be quite satisfactory for the average well endowed male. If you
    are somewhat less developed you might find better pleasure with a pony or
    Miniature Horse. These are also better as they are lower to the ground. A
    pony you can fuck standing up. A miniature horse on your knees or
    squatting depending on the size. A mare will require something to stand on
    or "platform shoes"...(IE mini stilts to raise you a foot off the ground)
    so that you can reach her pussy.
    Fucking any horse will depend on the horse. Some will be ready right
    away...some will take coaxing. Pet the animal, talk to it softly, spend
    time with it gaining it's trust. If something you are doing upsets it then
    don't force it. Talk to it and calm it. If you work slowly you can make
    an animal accept anything. It is just a question of helping it overcome
    it's fears. All animals fear man if raised in the wild. How any animal
    reacts will depend on it's own experiences. If you haved raised the animal
    yourself in a loving enviroment, then you should have no problem
    associating with it, if it is a strange animal that you have met in the
    wild then you will have to go through an extended "courtship" to learn how
    to respond to the beast.

    MARES - TRAINING YOUR OWN

    When the filly reaches weaning age, seperate her from her dam. If you have
    limited time to spend then she should be put to pasture. If you have
    plenty of time then you should keep her in a stall. Spend time with her
    during the day petting and grooming her and allow her some time to run
    free. Limit her access to other horses though and see that she spends at
    least 8-12 hours a day in the stall. (Start with more free time and as she
    approaches her first birthday confine her more...she is now at the right
    age and her confinement will have made her so bored that she is amenable to
    any new experience so long as it is not unpleasant)Young fillys have no
    objection to someone playing with their pussy's. I have walked up on a pen
    full of strange fillys at night and they came right up to me and I petted
    them and felt up their pussys and they just lifted their tales and seemed
    to enjoy it. These fillys didn't even know me but they were young,
    inexperienced and bored...also since they were penned they were used to the
    presence of people and did not fear me. Most horses in a large pasture
    will run when they scent a strange human in their pasture at night.
    If you sit on the ground and wait patiently, they will get downwind of you
    and s

  6. Mares can be quite satisfactory for the average we by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Mares can be quite satisfactory for the average well endowed male. If you are somewhat less developed you might find better pleasure with a pony or Miniature Horse.

  7. fasddasdasda by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  8. Young fillys have no objection to someone playing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Young fillys have no objection to someone playing with their pussy's.

  9. Horse cum has a nice flat taste to it...not at all by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Horse cum has a nice flat taste to it...not at all bitter like man's cum. You can easily drink cups of it with no discomfort.

  10. After the horse has entered and reaches a climax t by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    After the horse has entered and reaches a climax the head swells (though it is more spongy then hard) into a fist sized mass as he ejacultates.

  11. Stallions are aroused by the smell of horse pussy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Stallions are aroused by the smell of horse pussy above all else. If you have access to a mare, then gentle her till she will let you finger her...then coat your fingers with her juice

  12. A full grown stallion can ejaculate about one cup by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    A full grown stallion can ejaculate about one cup ( 8 ounces ) of semen. It will take quite a few spurts to accomplish this. Each time his tail will raise and lower in a brief flick. The first few jets are of a thin to average consistency of cum. The final few jets are of a thick gelatinous substance

  13. Horse cum has a nice flat taste to it...not at all by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Horse cum has a nice flat taste to it...not at all bitter like man's cum. You can easily drink cups of it with no discomfort

  14. Rubbing some hot mare piss on a stallions nose wil by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Rubbing some hot mare piss on a stallions nose will make him horny as hell! He will be all over you!

  15. NOONE SHOULD ATTEMPT VAGINAL OR ANAL INTERCOURSE W by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    NOONE SHOULD ATTEMPT VAGINAL OR ANAL INTERCOURSE WITH A STALLION unless they have are experienced in fist fucking or have taken a large dog in to the max ( IE knot and all).

  16. Soon just your presence will give him a throbbing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    By coming repeatedly to a horse and arousing him he will become trained to see you as a sexual object. Soon just your presence will give him a throbbing hard-on.

  17. A full grown stallion can ejaculate about one cup by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    A full grown stallion can ejaculate about one cup ( 8 ounces ) of semen.

  18. Horses are somewhat different from other animals i by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Horses are somewhat different from other animals in the way their cock head works. When a horse is fully erect and excited and ready to mount, his cock head is somewhat pointed and not as thick as might be normally observed.

  19. FreeBSD is here to stay. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    5.2 coming out soon will rock!

  20. Horse semen is extremely viscous, if you touch you by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Horse semen is
    extremely viscous, if you touch your finger to a
    pool of it you can draw a thin string of it five to six feet long!
  21. Mac OS X is BSD based by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    G5 BigMac supercomputer, biggest bang for the buck out of all supercomputers running on BSD based OS. Freaks in denial pulling their hair out!

  22. Not what it seems by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    FreeBSD suffers from a couple of serious process flaws -- it is an operating system which is truly at home neither in the open-source nor the proprietary markets primarily because, although the source is open, the development team is not. Furthermore the license allows proprietary software to "steal" source code and use it. The combination of these problems leads to a somewhat inferior OS.

    Now, Apache uses a BSD style license but they have an open development model which allows them to take advantage of a very large developer pool in order to stay ahead of their competition. In fact although proprietary versions of Apache exist which perform better than the official releases, SGI has put out some open source patches which generate even larger performance boosts. This is the reason why they have such a strong showing in terms of market share.

    BSD once had potential but the procedural problems they are experiencing hurt it when it comes to the market. I suspect that this is probably in part because the BSD teams are not interested in such things, and that is a shame... In fact, although I labeled it as an inferior OS, this is not due to lack of progress within BSD -- it has been progressing somewhat, but rather because all the improvements they make tend to be quickly copied by their competitors AND they lack the developer pool to stay ahead of this game (a problem which does not exist in the Linux or Apache communities, though for somewhat different reasons).

    I don't think that there is enough widespread support for BSD to save the operating system. What must be done is an opening up of the development process OR a GPL-style restriction on redistribution. In many ways I favor the former.

    Even in a worst case scenario, I don't see BSD completely dying. I think the developers are less into competition and more into a sort of idealized cooperation. As a result, even if BSD becomes more marginalized, I don't think that it will die outright. It will most likely outlive Netware, for example.