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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


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