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Date:      Fri, 19 Aug 2005 11:40:38 +0200
From:      Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org>
To:        Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netinet in.c
Message-ID:  <20050819094038.GV659@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050819092219.GB57615@cell.sick.ru>
References:  <200508181034.j7IAYUSS015059@repoman.freebsd.org> <20050818232116.GS659@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> <20050819092219.GB57615@cell.sick.ru>

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Gleb,

> J> >   Add a sysctl switch net.inet.ip.same_prefix_carp_only. If the switch
> J> >   is on, then kernel will refuse to add an additional interface to
> J> >   already connected subnet unless the interface is CARP. Default
> J> >   value is off.
> J> 
> J> First, thanks for you work.
> J> Do you plan to drop a line about this in a manual page ?  I would like
> J> to help you on this, but I don't think I'm the good guy to do it,
> J> since I don't even use carp(4) interfaces.
> 
> The question is which man page to choose, so that people interested in
> disabling this feature would find it themselves. Definitely not carp(4).
> May be ip(4)? 

This sysctl is definitely carp(4)-centric, this is underlined by its
name :-).  I'm not sure why you don't want to put this is carp(4)
manpage.  Is it to make easier the future imports of the carp(4)
subsystem from OpenBSD ?

Regards,
-- 
Jeremie Le Hen
< jeremie at le-hen dot org >< ttz at chchile dot org >



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