From owner-freebsd-net Thu Sep 20 17:52:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from InterJet.elischer.org (c421509-a.pinol1.sfba.home.com [24.7.86.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 073C837B413 for ; Thu, 20 Sep 2001 17:52:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA33781; Thu, 20 Sep 2001 18:24:50 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 18:24:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Brooks Davis Cc: net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gif devices in 4.4? In-Reply-To: <20010920165550.A20647@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 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 > > -- > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message