Date: Mon, 28 Aug 1995 12:47:58 -0400 From: dennis@et.htp.com (dennis) To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: alias ( secondary IP ) for Ethernet Ifaces in FreeBSD Message-ID: <199508281647.MAA02468@mail.htp.com>
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>> Well, they say you get what you pay for....except I paid for BSD/OS and I >> get no response from them either....... > >I am seriously confused. Did the rest of us here all come in >somewhere in the middle of a long conversation, or what? Needless to >say, I'm totally unable to make heads-or-tails of the attribution >nesting in the snippet of included text (it went 5 levels deep in the >middle!). > >What's the summary here? Is someone upset about a gated bug, a >FreeBSD bug or a little of both? Background details please! Thanks! > Sorry, but the messages were getting really long. A Summary: IP aliasing doesn't seem to work when gated is running. Mr Corston complained that he had sent a bug report to the FreeBSD people and got no response and wasn't happy. I told him that I think that the problem has more to do with gateD than FreeBSD, and that it should not be the responsibility of an O/S to conform to an Application. I've talked to some of the gateD-people but they are pretty adamant about their design. I made some suggestions about how they should make gateD more generic because many of the supported UNIX platforms are becoming more diverse internally and it will become more and more difficult to keep everything working as time goes on. Complex interfaces (frame relay, X.25, atm, SMDS, etc) do not work with gated unless they are implemented in a particular way, and frankly the way that they must be implemented would make for a very poor product. Needless to say I received a rather nasty scolding for my efforts. I also have a serious problem with an application that dictates how a kernel subsystem has to be implemented....theres something wrong with the picture in general. Dennis
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