Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 11:00:11 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Hiten Pandya <hiten@unixdaemons.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Loopback device dillema Message-ID: <20030306110011.B27325@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <20030306183854.GA47557@unixdaemons.com>; from hiten@unixdaemons.com on Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 01:38:54PM -0500 References: <20030306183854.GA47557@unixdaemons.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 01:38:54PM -0500, Hiten Pandya wrote: > To conclude, I would like to see the loopback device made default, and > if this is not agreed upon, then someone needs to fix case when loopback > device is not in the kernel config, and is going to be loaded as a > module. What is gained by making loopback default? It's true that you need a loopback device, but that's a bug not a feature. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+Z5q7XY6L6fI4GtQRAg5jAJoDGc0VGPGKTn8EOXxh1QcM65AnmgCfTcHz nShxsn4ZfZOYn2k/+Tf3Fx8= =up0n -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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