From: "Sven F." <sven.falempin@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: non-perfect diff to explain an issue with netstart and AUTOCONF
To: tech@openbsd.org
Date: Fri, 30 May 2025 12:43:34 -0400

On Fri, May 30, 2025 at 12:24 PM Theo de Raadt <deraadt@openbsd.org> wrote:

> Sven F. <sven.falempin@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > If an interface is configured with AUTOCONF
> > hostname.if does not remove the flag
>
> Noone said that netstart removes any configuration.  There are probably
> 50+ configuration pieces on an interface, and netstart does not remove
> any of them.  It does not "reset a port".  It only sets things that it
> knows about.
>
> I do not think this proposal is useful.
>
>
>
NB:

Downing an interface removes configs, like inet, not flags , this may be
useful to make a decision
just saying the behavior is not completely coherent since autoconf is more
ip config than phy behavior.

anyway there's many workaround .