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Date:      Sat, 10 Jan 2009 10:28:43 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Attila Nagy <bra@fsn.hu>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r186955 - in head/sys: conf netinet
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.0901101026220.16794@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <49686A30.4000205@fsn.hu>
References:  <200901091602.n09G2Jj1061164@svn.freebsd.org> <4967A500.30205@fsn.hu> <4967B6D9.90001@elischer.org> <4967C539.2060803@fsn.hu> <d763ac660901091411x40eb8084v134f0ab2189afddb@mail.gmail.com> <49686A30.4000205@fsn.hu>

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On Sat, 10 Jan 2009, Attila Nagy wrote:

>> Well, they can be used mostly interchangably - they socket option is just 
>> implemented at a different layer.
>> 
>> Porting should be a case of a simple #ifdef. :)
> 
> I wonder what pf changes are needed..

I think Julian's analysis, that this is more of an inet option than a 
socket-layer option, seems more appropriate to me, the benefits of portability 
in adopting the API used by OpenBSD/BSDI/etc seem more compelling.  We should 
make sure that, if we move to the socket option used on those systems, we 
block setting it on non-supporting protocols, or confusion will result.  In 
particular, Adrian's change only modified IPv4, not IPv6, so until it's 
implemented on IPv6 it shouldn't be possible to set the option.

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge



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