From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 2 22:09:22 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20DF510656A8; Tue, 2 Jun 2009 22:09:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brooks@lor.one-eyed-alien.net) Received: from lor.one-eyed-alien.net (cl-162.ewr-01.us.sixxs.net [IPv6:2001:4830:1200:a1::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 843BC8FC23; Tue, 2 Jun 2009 22:09:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brooks@lor.one-eyed-alien.net) Received: from lor.one-eyed-alien.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lor.one-eyed-alien.net (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n52M9X5G018858; Tue, 2 Jun 2009 17:09:33 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from brooks@lor.one-eyed-alien.net) Received: (from brooks@localhost) by lor.one-eyed-alien.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n52M9XvM018857; Tue, 2 Jun 2009 17:09:33 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from brooks) Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 17:09:33 -0500 From: Brooks Davis To: Ruben van Staveren Message-ID: <20090602220933.GE15552@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> References: <4A257B82.1000701@FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Q8BnQc91gJZX4vDc" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (lor.one-eyed-alien.net [127.0.0.1]); Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:09:33 -0500 (CDT) Cc: Doug Barton , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Do you use a value other than AUTO for network_interfaces? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:09:23 -0000 --Q8BnQc91gJZX4vDc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 10:30:46PM +0200, Ruben van Staveren wrote: >=20 > On 2 Jun 2009, at 21:20, Doug Barton wrote: >=20 >> Up till Sunday in 8-current, and for a long time in general >> network.subr (part of the rc.d system) has emitted a warning that >> values of network_interfaces other than AUTO are deprecated. I removed >> that warning in HEAD Sunday, and there is no a discussion about >> whether or not it should be put back, and whether or not there is any >> need for the user to specify the list of network interfaces at all. >=20 > Well, I do. >=20 > I only want to configure only the interfaces that are connected and that = I=20 > know about. especially in combination with IPv6 there is a nit that you'l= l=20 > get autoconfiguration for all interfaces unless they are all explicitly= =20 > configured. See my other post on why this is a needless worry for the IPv4 case. > e.g. bge0 connected, bge1 not, v6 autoconf on the lan. if I don't do a=20 > ipv6_ifconfig_bge1=3D"down" and nail network_interfaces to bge0 bge1 lo0 = only=20 > I'll get autoconfiguration of v6 where I don't want it to be. >=20 >=20 > Being a bit of my own devils advocate here, network_interfaces=3D"AUTO" i= s=20 > already true for ipv6. with network_interfaces=3D"bge0 lo0" network.subr= =20 > nevertheless sees bge1, and no configuration and takes the responsibility= =20 > of starting ipv6 autoconfiguration for it. The IPv6 case is clearly a bug. We should really consolidate the two cases and I think there are patches to do so if someone wants to setup up and help get them in. -- Brooks --Q8BnQc91gJZX4vDc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFKJaMbXY6L6fI4GtQRApXSAJ409BZvxW77XiaT8jHFpTh5YJgHEQCg2AiK y4z8ZdrHH5k//BBnWsrv4mc= =lupY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Q8BnQc91gJZX4vDc--