From owner-freebsd-current Thu Mar 6 11: 6:36 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8538937B401 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 11:06:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from angelica.unixdaemons.com (angelica.unixdaemons.com [209.148.64.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9373F43FA3 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 11:06:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hiten@angelica.unixdaemons.com) Received: from angelica.unixdaemons.com (localhost.unixdaemons.com [127.0.0.1]) by angelica.unixdaemons.com (8.12.8/8.12.1) with ESMTP id h26J6Wmq057882; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 14:06:32 -0500 (EST) Received: (from hiten@localhost) by angelica.unixdaemons.com (8.12.8/8.12.1/Submit) id h26J6WhR057877; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 14:06:32 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from hiten) Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 14:06:32 -0500 From: Hiten Pandya To: Brooks Davis Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Loopback device dillema Message-ID: <20030306190632.GB55182@unixdaemons.com> References: <20030306183854.GA47557@unixdaemons.com> <20030306110011.B27325@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030306110011.B27325@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD i386 X-Public-Key: http://www.pittgoth.com/~hiten/pubkey.asc X-URL: http://www.unixdaemons.com/~hiten X-PGP: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?search=Hiten+Pandya&op=index Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brooks Davis (Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 11:00:11AM -0800) wrote: > 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. Right, I do not have a problem with that, but that just means someone needs to fix that in netinet/if_ether.c, and netinet/igmp.c. -- Hiten Pandya (hiten@unixdaemons.com, hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org) http://www.unixdaemons.com/~hiten/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message