Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 08:27:37 -0700 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> Cc: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cloning network interfaces Message-ID: <20010611152737.8709B390F@overcee.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200106101205.f5AC5DA31455@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>
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Brian Somers wrote: > > I went ahead and nuked the auto-creation and -D flag in favor of plumb > > and unplumb in the patch at: > > > > http://www.one-eyed-alien.net/~brooks/FreeBSD/gif.diff > > > > This version includes a change to rc.network to plumb gif interfaces > > before calling gifcreate. This will still trip up users who build > > static gif tunnels from hosts with dynamic addresses since they can't > > run gifconfig yet, but we don't really have any means of supporting that > > in the rc files yet anyway. > > > > -- Brooks > > This looks good to me. I've cc'd freebsd-arch to see if anyone else > wants to comment. If there are no objections, I'll test & commit it > in about a week. Personally, I'd prefer create/destroy instead of plumb/unplumb. The Solaris plumb command is for doing 'STREAMS plumbing' - ie: connecting all the streams pipes and modules together. Creating/deleting interfaces on BSD systems IMHO has nothing in common with that concept. We are creating/destroying interfaces, not connecting/disconnecting streams nodes (plumbing). Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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