From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 29 19:07:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA02247 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 29 Apr 1996 19:07:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA02234 for ; Mon, 29 Apr 1996 19:07:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id LAA18141; Tue, 30 Apr 1996 11:36:53 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199604300206.LAA18141@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Porting if_vif.c to FreeBSD 2.0.5... To: rjb@intac.com Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 11:36:53 +0930 (CST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "rjb@intac.com" at Apr 29, 96 04:34:42 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[