From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 6 00:21:56 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54D9516A4BF for ; Sat, 6 Sep 2003 00:21:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rwcrmhc11.comcast.net (rwcrmhc11.comcast.net [204.127.198.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9D6A44008 for ; Sat, 6 Sep 2003 00:21:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from interjet.elischer.org ([12.233.125.100]) by attbi.com (rwcrmhc11) with ESMTP id <20030906072154013000p6cne>; Sat, 6 Sep 2003 07:21:55 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id AAA05873; Sat, 6 Sep 2003 00:21:54 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2003 00:21:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Paolo Pisati In-Reply-To: <20030905184554.GA676@southcross.skynet.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: FreeBSD_Net Subject: Re: Reserving a couple of names for custom developed netgraph nodes X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2003 07:21:56 -0000 On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Paolo Pisati wrote: > > Like the subjects says, > > I think it would be nice to reserve a couple of names (like > ng_cust1 & ng_cust2) for user developed netgraph nodes (something > like unix did with major&minor numbers of device). > > With a couple of spare nodes it would be possible > to develop and test new netgraph nodes without overwriting already > existing nodes i.e. ng_tee. why ? you can choose any string upto 15 characters why not use ng_paolo1 and ng_paolo2 etc..... I don't see a gain.. > > What do you think about it? I'm not against it but I don't see a need.. nothing has any pre-knowledge of node names.. they are arbitrary strings..... > > -- > Paolo > > Italian FreeBSD User Group: http://www.gufi.org > Join us at GufiCON4 in Pisa: http://www.gufi.org/guficon4/ > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >