From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Jun 11 11:48:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08C8C37B405; Mon, 11 Jun 2001 11:48:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f5BIma229454; Mon, 11 Jun 2001 11:48:36 -0700 Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 11:48:36 -0700 From: Brooks Davis To: Robert Watson Cc: Peter Wemm , Brian Somers , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Poul-Henning Kamp , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cloning network interfaces Message-ID: <20010611114836.A29046@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <20010611092147.A7059@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="vtzGhvizbBRQ85DL" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG on Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 02:40:54PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --vtzGhvizbBRQ85DL Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 02:40:54PM -0400, Robert Watson wrote: > An advantage to also supporting the ioctl interface is that it permits > interface cloning to be used on systems where devfs is not used, or where > there are parts of the system where devfs is unavailable (i.e., various > forms of chroots). I think devfs is cool and all, but given the existance > of fairly sensical non-devfs ways to do things, I'm tempted suggest > supporting them also. Actually, the currently implemented method doesn't required devfs. It's just somewhat easier to use in the devfs case because it doesn't require a mknod then. I think there are enough good reasons for following the NetBSD example that's I'll probalby do it. I'm currently trying to figure out how they implemented it. -- 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 --vtzGhvizbBRQ85DL Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7JRKDXY6L6fI4GtQRAoTmAJ9kSVYezDgFtmbPj8J814SGIbSCxQCg5FGE f5QcMjJu3uwqpa/5oqZpw6o= =eDb9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --vtzGhvizbBRQ85DL-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message