Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 09:21:47 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Cc: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cloning network interfaces Message-ID: <20010611092147.A7059@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <20010611152737.8709B390F@overcee.netplex.com.au>; from peter@wemm.org on Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 08:27:37AM -0700 References: <200106101205.f5AC5DA31455@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> <20010611152737.8709B390F@overcee.netplex.com.au>
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--MGYHOYXEY6WxJCY8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 08:27:37AM -0700, Peter Wemm wrote: > 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). I've made create/destory the default names with plumb and unplumb standing in as SysV compatability parameters because that seems to be the ifconfig way. The diff at: http://www.one-eyed-alien.net/~brooks/FreeBSD/gif.diff has been updated. I'm still thinking about adopting the NetBSD SIOIF{CREATE,DESTORY} interface. -- Brooks Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --MGYHOYXEY6WxJCY8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7JPAaXY6L6fI4GtQRAhasAKCU65ze+2o18Kyyp1ieEYqxrYQsqQCgtwGi /CiT3DIk6wip9LM7PyVRB1U= =H8x3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --MGYHOYXEY6WxJCY8-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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