From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 3 05:20:26 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C794216A4DE for ; Sun, 3 Sep 2006 05:20:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx22.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3951843D45 for ; Sun, 3 Sep 2006 05:20:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 13507 invoked by uid 399); 3 Sep 2006 05:20:25 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ?192.168.0.3?) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 3 Sep 2006 05:20:25 -0000 Message-ID: <44FA6616.8080806@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2006 22:20:22 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060729) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: George Mitchell References: <200609030220.k832KQji011085@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200609030220.k832KQji011085@freefall.freebsd.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/102035: [plip] plip networking disables parallel port printing X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2006 05:20:26 -0000 Your approach is interesting, but I'm not sure I like the idea of adding a new semantic to the defaults file. Would you consider instead modifying network6_interface_setup in network.subr to not automatically configure a plip interface if ipv6_ifconfig_plipN is unset or null? That would accomplish the same thing, but it would be behind the scenes. Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection