From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Mar 3 21: 0:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from InterJet.dellroad.org (adsl-63-194-81-26.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.194.81.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27ED237B419 for ; Sun, 3 Mar 2002 21:00:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from arch20m.dellroad.org (arch20m.dellroad.org [10.1.1.20]) by InterJet.dellroad.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id UAA70437; Sun, 3 Mar 2002 20:56:13 -0800 (PST) Received: (from archie@localhost) by arch20m.dellroad.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g244tr429559; Sun, 3 Mar 2002 20:55:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from archie) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <200203040455.g244tr429559@arch20m.dellroad.org> Subject: Re: Patches to if_loop + the interface cloning framework In-Reply-To: "from Julian Elischer at Mar 1, 2002 11:24:16 am" To: Julian Elischer Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 20:55:53 -0800 (PST) Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL88 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Julian Elischer writes: > I think loopback is not really 'optional' and should come as soon > as you have any networking at all. Why? From a theoretical standpoint, there's nothing mandatory about it. E.g., consider a machine that is only a router, has no users, etc. It doesn't need one. -Archie __________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Packet Design * http://www.packetdesign.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message