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Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 09:21:47 -0700
From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
Cc: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG,
	Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: cloning network interfaces
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On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 08:27:37AM -0700, Peter Wemm wrote:
> Personally, I'd prefer create/destroy instead of plumb/unplumb.  The Solaris
> plumb command is for doing 'STREAMS plumbing' - ie: connecting all the
> streams pipes and modules together.  Creating/deleting interfaces on
> BSD systems IMHO has nothing in common with that concept.  We are
> creating/destroying interfaces, not connecting/disconnecting streams
> nodes (plumbing).

I've made create/destory the default names with plumb and unplumb
standing in as SysV compatability parameters because that seems to be
the ifconfig way.  The diff at:

http://www.one-eyed-alien.net/~brooks/FreeBSD/gif.diff

has been updated.  I'm still thinking about adopting the NetBSD
SIOIF{CREATE,DESTORY} interface.

-- Brooks

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