From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 11 9:22: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D17037B405; Mon, 11 Jun 2001 09:21:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f5BGLll09719; Mon, 11 Jun 2001 09:21:47 -0700 Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 09:21:47 -0700 From: Brooks Davis To: Peter Wemm Cc: Brian Somers , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Poul-Henning Kamp , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cloning network interfaces Message-ID: <20010611092147.A7059@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <200106101205.f5AC5DA31455@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> <20010611152737.8709B390F@overcee.netplex.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="MGYHOYXEY6WxJCY8" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010611152737.8709B390F@overcee.netplex.com.au>; from peter@wemm.org on Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 08:27:37AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --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