From owner-freebsd-net@freebsd.org Mon May 9 13:56:59 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E43FDB341BB for ; Mon, 9 May 2016 13:56:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@eitanadler.com) Received: from mail-wm0-x233.google.com (mail-wm0-x233.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c09::233]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 94B5813B4 for ; Mon, 9 May 2016 13:56:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@eitanadler.com) Received: by mail-wm0-x233.google.com with SMTP id v200so21452754wmv.1 for ; Mon, 09 May 2016 06:56:59 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=eitanadler.com; s=0xdeadbeef; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-transfer-encoding; bh=2TRhHoUEQW0iDMqOzwaLmOb98Osg1sOWYD6AqvForNw=; b=j7JTosyV9dSRXE6meGsM0NMwIUY5gMdpBF9Z1U6WoJC3BjwiGXfZZ4aL2HmtsCK8FU eHLrH/35pstuW1ApzFXybHYsFuMFCzdFvjLsgj3XbVMhDTGW4YsfDDLQYFm92X/yiUGF hRhQd+NLNf97uxAbEwFIr55KbZ35PPBAP6oYc= X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc:content-transfer-encoding; bh=2TRhHoUEQW0iDMqOzwaLmOb98Osg1sOWYD6AqvForNw=; b=SsWbRynnD7fleDWRR4HX4q7ux5e9uwujOo5e1bzXvsqObhpJQb76RM5/K7A8b0s1Tw Xgtge5+vkfFvjn/AOb/zPe40LFTiGWqvKV9ecZ0/Jk7CKPR4a3bldUaBUT0NifSESmri 37+uMCToxYVt8NefgHaBZyIy1srYPmCC6STSNcvqT7sGw5BwN0KnDOYVEwX/0/PVXsLJ uGB0298iLy5yo1FrX3LalvzcICmpDPeGNgxxANhkDj1Iir6ZiJWNSHNQiHULABpTjwQ0 /O6XHg3pdjb/IeuFPy8rayp6e7daeJaQmrr9TOWua3hZNlOfBKFKKgmwiC5/LWdB9j3k s09A== X-Gm-Message-State: AOPr4FW4dPlzgrNK/4nNLMm5Q0KfTBY0byzag7SCAfST69LEpeVlazWUovAIiIgHtWq6F272GtDI+CSwIvckCg== X-Received: by 10.194.143.51 with SMTP id sb19mr34244688wjb.98.1462802217912; Mon, 09 May 2016 06:56:57 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.28.31.137 with HTTP; Mon, 9 May 2016 06:56:28 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <52FB7430-BC4D-4157-94FB-4245BA1C3066@van-laarhoven.org> References: <52FB7430-BC4D-4157-94FB-4245BA1C3066@van-laarhoven.org> From: Eitan Adler Date: Mon, 9 May 2016 06:56:28 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: PR 166255 - disable promiscuous mode warning via sysctl To: Nick Hibma Cc: "freebsd-net@freebsd.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 May 2016 13:57:00 -0000 On 9 May 2016 at 02:02, Nick Hibma wrote: > Folks, > > In PR 166255 [1] it is suggested to allow disabling =E2=80=98promiscuous= mode enabled=E2=80=99 warnings. It adds a sysctl to allow toggling this be= haviour. I have a number of questions before I commit the patch: I don't any concern with a sysctl, but I wonder if some better ore more generic mechanism could be built (like syslog.conf). --=20 Eitan Adler