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Date:      Thu, 28 Jun 2001 03:10:51 +0900
From:      Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun@iijlab.net>
To:        Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
Cc:        net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: review request: network interface cloning 
Message-ID:  <20010627181051.E958A7C2@starfruit.itojun.org>
In-Reply-To: brooks's message of Tue, 26 Jun 2001 14:43:15 MST. <20010626144313.A7909@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> 

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>The cloning API isn't quite that of NetBSD because the NetBSD API only
>supported the creation of staticaly numbered interfaces which can lead
>to races and starvation in theory.  This patch instead allows interfaces
>to implement wildcard interface creation via "ifconfig gif# create".

	not sure if gif# has a good usage model.  if you type "ifconfig gif#
	create" you have little idea about the new interface name, hence you
	can't configure it after the command (think of the case where you put
	the command into /etc/rc.local).

itojun

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