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Subject: Re: review request: network interface cloning 
From: Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun@iijlab.net>
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 03:10:51 +0900
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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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