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Date:      Tue, 30 Apr 1996 11:36:53 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        rjb@intac.com
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Porting if_vif.c to FreeBSD 2.0.5...
Message-ID:  <199604300206.LAA18141@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <v01510100adaae46a1ea0@[198.6.114.59]> from "rjb@intac.com" at Apr 29, 96 04:34:42 pm

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rjb@intac.com stands accused of saying:
> 
> Has anyone had any experience porting John Ionnidis's vif (virtural interface)
> code to FreeBSD?

Why bother?  FreeBSD allows you to alias an arbitrary number of addresses
to an interface, so dummy interfaces are completely unnecessary.

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