From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Mar 4 11:24:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA6EB37B402; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 11:24:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g24JO6Lv080825; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 20:24:07 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Luigi Rizzo Cc: Brooks Davis , "Crist J. Clark" , Archie Cobbs , Julian Elischer , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Patches to if_loop + the interface cloning framework In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 04 Mar 2002 10:32:42 PST." <20020304103242.A67658@iguana.icir.org> Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 20:24:06 +0100 Message-ID: <80824.1015269846@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20020304103242.A67658@iguana.icir.org>, Luigi Rizzo writes: >On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 10:23:35AM -0800, Brooks Davis wrote: >> From a _practical_ standpoint, a loopback interface must be compiled >> in at this time. However, that's not what Archie and I are arguing. >> I'm arguing that since the requirement is not there in theory, we should >> not be making moves which require it in practice. The direction I'd like > >speaking of which , would it be reasonable to merge if_disc and if_loop ? >The former is basically a stripped down version of the latter, so >it hardly justifies a separate device I find if_disc useful sometimes, in particular being able to blackhole trafic and use SNMP to monitor the throughput. If you can merge it into if_loop in a sensible way I'm all for it. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message