From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 3 17:16:19 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CC5216A4DA; Sun, 3 Sep 2006 17:16:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brooks@lor.one-eyed-alien.net) Received: from sccmmhc91.asp.att.net (sccmmhc91.asp.att.net [204.127.203.211]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83F4C43D5C; Sun, 3 Sep 2006 17:16:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brooks@lor.one-eyed-alien.net) Received: from lor.one-eyed-alien.net ([12.207.12.9]) by sccmmhc91.asp.att.net (sccmmhc91) with ESMTP id <20060903171616m9100h3qo8e>; Sun, 3 Sep 2006 17:16:17 +0000 Received: from lor.one-eyed-alien.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lor.one-eyed-alien.net (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k83HGFui046267; Sun, 3 Sep 2006 12:16:15 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from brooks@lor.one-eyed-alien.net) Received: (from brooks@localhost) by lor.one-eyed-alien.net (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id k83HGF1i046266; Sun, 3 Sep 2006 12:16:15 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from brooks) Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2006 12:16:11 -0500 From: Brooks Davis To: Doug Barton Message-ID: <20060903171610.GB45627@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> References: <200609030220.k832KQji011085@freefall.freebsd.org> <44FA6616.8080806@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="RASg3xLB4tUQ4RcS" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44FA6616.8080806@FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, George Mitchell Subject: Re: kern/102035: [plip] plip networking disables parallel port printing X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2006 17:16:19 -0000 --RASg3xLB4tUQ4RcS Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 10:20:22PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > Your approach is interesting, but I'm not sure I like the idea of adding a > new semantic to the defaults file. >=20 > Would you consider instead modifying network6_interface_setup in > network.subr to not automatically configure a plip interface if > ipv6_ifconfig_plipN is unset or null? That would accomplish the same thin= g, > but it would be behind the scenes. That's a fairly significant change since there's no requirement to explicit= ly set an address for an IPv6 interface and this would suddenly require it. It may be that the right thing to do with IPv6 interfaces is to require that ipv6_ifconfig_ifn be set to something but that would be a change. In many ways I think the best thing to do is remove plip from GENERIC and be done with it. -- Brooks --RASg3xLB4tUQ4RcS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFE+w3aXY6L6fI4GtQRAgGjAKCYZSf77LUkUobgql1c/w7CmbBnNACghDv4 ZJ1Qm5wck6jAYO/brE3CWEY= =63KJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --RASg3xLB4tUQ4RcS--