From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 29 16:48:50 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9ED41065678 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:48:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from spork@bway.net) Received: from xena.bway.net (xena.bway.net [216.220.96.26]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FF798FC25 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:48:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from spork@bway.net) Received: (qmail 96931 invoked by uid 0); 29 Oct 2008 16:48:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO toasty.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com) (spork@96.57.102.250) by smtp.bway.net with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 29 Oct 2008 16:48:49 -0000 Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:48:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Sprickman X-X-Sender: spork@toasty.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com To: Robert Watson In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <487086DA-4514-44E7-AB9F-F1D98C652980@yellowspace.net> <49078377.2090807@smartt.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Lorenzo Perone , stable@freebsd.org, Chris St Denis Subject: Re: 7.x and multiple IPs in jails 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: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:48:50 -0000 On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Robert Watson wrote: > On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Chris St Denis wrote: > >> Serious question here (not trolling). >> >> These patches have been around for years, why have they never been >> committed to trunk/stable? > ... > The current patches Bjoern is preparing address most of these concerns, > and they've been undergoing review and testing for a few months now. > I'd like to think they will be in 8.x relatively shortly (next week or > two), and in 7.x before 7.2. That is great news! I have always avoided running patches like this on anything that I expect to be maintaining over a long period of time, since you can't know for sure whether new patches will be developed going forward. Having this very useful feature become part of the base really helps me and anyone else doing VPS-type stuff. I did find the vimage work eventually, but it's more than I need and I was not too certain about how stable it is at this point. Thanks, Charles > Robert N M Watson > Computer Laboratory > University of Cambridge >