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Date:      Thu, 20 Sep 2001 18:24:49 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
Cc:        net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Gif devices in 4.4?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0109201823010.33215-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010920165550.A20647@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>

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On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Brooks Davis wrote:

> 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. :-|

The sample in the daemon-news article no longer works..

> 
> > 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.

there is no gif(8)
but this could do with being in gif(4)
(and in gifconfig(8))

> 
> -- Brooks
> 
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