Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 10:58:43 +0100 (BST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, Yar Tikhiy <yar@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netinet ip_carp.c Message-ID: <20051026105820.X32255@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20051026093536.GF41520@cell.sick.ru> References: <200510260557.j9Q5vZ7J076711@repoman.freebsd.org> <20051026101319.A32255@fledge.watson.org> <20051026093536.GF41520@cell.sick.ru>
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On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Gleb Smirnoff wrote: > On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 10:15:09AM +0100, Robert Watson wrote: > R> I think we may actually be in need of either a new flag, > R> IFF_OKSODONTTREATTHISQUITELIKEANINTERFACE, or maybe a more reliable way > R> for protocols to ask if an interface is a loopback interface or not. > > I'd prefer to rewrite those subsystems that use interface layer but > aren't actually interfaces. I have plans to do this for CARP. At least in the case of if_disc, this won't help. I'm not quite sure why if_disc is IFF_LOOPBACK. Robert N M Watson
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