From owner-freebsd-current Thu Mar 6 11:15:21 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 5912937B401 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 11:15:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8CA243F75 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 11:15:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (IDENT:brdavis@localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h26JFHJu020224; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 11:15:17 -0800 Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id h26JFGoa020223; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 11:15:16 -0800 Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 11:15:16 -0800 From: Brooks Davis To: Hiten Pandya Cc: Brooks Davis , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Loopback device dillema Message-ID: <20030306111516.A19108@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <20030306183854.GA47557@unixdaemons.com> <20030306110011.B27325@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <20030306190632.GB55182@unixdaemons.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20030306190632.GB55182@unixdaemons.com>; from hiten@unixdaemons.com on Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 02:06:32PM -0500 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) on odin.ac.hmc.edu 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 --yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 02:06:32PM -0500, Hiten Pandya wrote: > 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 loopb= ack > > > device is not in the kernel config, and is going to be loaded as a > > > module. > >=20 > > What is gained by making loopback default? It's true that you need a > > loopback device, but that's a bug not a feature. >=20 > 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. Not to mention: netinet6/{in6_pcb.c,in6_src.c,ip6_input.c,ip6_output.c,nd6.c} but that wasn't my point. I ask again: What is gained by making loopback default? -- Brooks --=20 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 --yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+Z55EXY6L6fI4GtQRAj8hAKDm901af2DniZtWJFxmoeiatQNHSQCfVXdf 4yqzwyBwlRCJw9MLeWD0dHg= =0RUk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message