From owner-freebsd-qa Mon Jan 14 19:25:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Received: from www.svzserv.kemerovo.su (www.svzserv.kemerovo.su [213.184.65.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E57037B41A for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 19:25:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from www.kuzbass.ru (kost [213.184.65.82]) by www.svzserv.kemerovo.su (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g0F3POm76829; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 10:25:25 +0700 (KRAT) (envelope-from eugen@www.kuzbass.ru) Message-ID: <3C43A11D.B9534992@www.kuzbass.ru> Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 10:25:17 +0700 From: Eugene Grosbein Organization: SVZServ X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: ru,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug White Cc: qa@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/33833 References: <20020114134043.P1215-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug White wrote: > > Please review http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/33833. > > There is an example of breaking POLA and it's even not documented yet. > > 'pseudo-device ether' has generally been required since the beginning of > time. It's certainly needed for ppp since it sets up a ether-like > interface. It's wrong. It was not required for 4.4-RELEASE & kernel level ppp. I've noticed this change after cvsup when my working kernel failed to rebuild. > If you compiled without DUMMYNET you wouldn't run into the problem, btw. Of course, but DUMMYNET is required for some applications. Eugene Grosbein To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message