Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 12:33:55 +0430 From: Sara Khanchi <s.khanchi@gmail.com> To: Joe Holden <lists@rewt.org.uk> Cc: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>, Jack Vogel <jfvogel@gmail.com>, "freebsd-net@freebsd.org" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How not allow setting ip changes interface down status? Message-ID: <CAARSjE0iHOtFMFqvpMRU=0rtj=Lxau%2B-cttr=C5T4sVo28E4_w@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <51BFA24D.70705@rewt.org.uk> References: <CAARSjE2FVkOr6yxUnnFjD4zYBVzkoEcOmEONzVqK%2B3wEor%2BHhA@mail.gmail.com> <CAJ-VmomUWn%2B6dg2ScWh=HdjygNczoy8xDvRK71z5cEob=bRAEw@mail.gmail.com> <69CF1AAF-230D-4B2B-9C95-20DDD772997E@dataix.net> <CAFOYbcnW01g7-tp89DoNDRzKWb%2BkuL8H2L1jegqRyVYt1O4-7g@mail.gmail.com> <CC186284-703C-412F-B867-C3F4DE7812EA@dataix.net> <51BFA24D.70705@rewt.org.uk>
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On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 4:27 AM, Joe Holden <lists@rewt.org.uk> wrote: > Jason Hellenthal wrote: > >> Off the top of my head I don't know of another OS that does this. >> >> But yes agreed changing that behavior would probably effect a lot of >> people in a negative way at this point. >> >> Not to mention script breakage. >> >> But a tunable in the stack somewhere would be awesome to change this >> behavior. Either interface specific or global or both. >> >> Sometimes installing a new faucet you don't want the water to run until >> all the nuts, bolts and washers are installed. >> >> The entire notion is ridiculous, it is quite simple - if the interface > is down, it isn't in the FIB, you can't arbitarily return an error for > setting an IP on an interface that isn't up. > > The last thing we need is yet more nonsense stack changes, allowing 0/8 to > be used was bad enough. > What I've intended to do, as jason is mentioned too, is assigning IP address to the interface but not let it works until a proper time. As I understand there is not any way just set the interface down besides adding IP! Still, any other solution?
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