From owner-freebsd-net Thu Sep 20 16:55:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21D9737B401 for ; Thu, 20 Sep 2001 16:55:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f8KNtoF23992; Thu, 20 Sep 2001 16:55:50 -0700 Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 16:55:50 -0700 From: Brooks Davis To: Julian Elischer Cc: net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gif devices in 4.4? Message-ID: <20010920165550.A20647@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <20010920161440.A16697@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="RnlQjJ0d97Da+TV1" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from julian@elischer.org on Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 05:08:23PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --RnlQjJ0d97Da+TV1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 05:08:23PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: > This is a bad breakage of POLA! It's been in stable for two months with only a few of people asking about it and non of them asking to have it removed or changed that I saw. It probalby would have been better to continue to clone the requested number of interfaces at runtime in -stable, but since we've released, it's a bit late. :-| > All old gif scripts are now broken (grumble) It was thought that most people were using the rc.conf interface which was fixed. The lack of serious complaints seemed bare that out. > I think whoever made this change needs to put big > comments about how to do this in gif(4) and gifconfig(8) How would this do (as the second paragraph in gif(8)): gif interfaces are allocated at runtime using interface cloning. This= is most easily done with the ifconfig(8) create command. -- 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 --RnlQjJ0d97Da+TV1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7qoIFXY6L6fI4GtQRAvyRAJoDPbcqdfZ1guSLoEZ8jILBncaswwCeK9Qd EM60tjxginwr4FXGCoYbyaY= =Qke+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --RnlQjJ0d97Da+TV1-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message