From owner-freebsd-pf@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 27 11:50:34 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-pf@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-pf@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1072216A4DA for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 11:50:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from max@love2party.net) Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.187]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63DA343D55 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 11:50:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from max@love2party.net) Received: from [88.64.179.207] (helo=amd64.laiers.local) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu0) with ESMTP (Nemesis), id 0MKwh2-1G64Np3w0x-00022R; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 13:50:32 +0200 From: Max Laier Organization: FreeBSD To: freebsd-pf@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 13:50:22 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 References: <44C7FA9A.20508@threerings.net> In-Reply-To: <44C7FA9A.20508@threerings.net> X-Face: ,,8R(x[kmU]tKN@>gtH1yQE4aslGdu+2]; R]*pL,U>^H?)gW@49@wdJ`H<=?utf-8?q?=25=7D*=5FBD=0A=09U=5For=3D=5CmOZf764=26nYj=3DJYbR1PW0ud?=>|!~,,CPC.1-D$FG@0h3#'5"k{V]a~.<=?utf-8?q?mZ=7D44=23Se=7Em=0A=09Fe=7E=5C=5DX5B=5D=5Fxj?=(ykz9QKMw_l0C2AQ]}Ym8)fU MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart3676555.Kq1r2fQ7YS"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200607271350.28684.max@love2party.net> X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de login:61c499deaeeba3ba5be80f48ecc83056 Cc: Subject: Re: carpdev support from OpenBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-pf@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Technical discussion and general questions about packet filter \(pf\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 11:50:34 -0000 --nextPart3676555.Kq1r2fQ7YS Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday 27 July 2006 01:28, Nick Barkas wrote: > There is a feature from OpenBSD's carp implementation that allows one to > specify which device a carp interface will use, similar to how vlan > devices are associated to a physical interface with the vlandev option > to ifconfig. The change to support this carpdev option looks like it was > added about a year and a half ago to OpenBSD, but it has not been merged > into FreeBSD yet. I would like to have support for this on my routers, > and I am interested in trying to port these changes over to FreeBSD. > > I have two questions, however. First, is it desired by others that > FreeBSD's carp attempt to follow the development of OpenBSD's > implementation? In looking at cvs commit logs in > sys/netinet/ip_carp.[ch], I have seen that there have been only a few > instances where OpenBSD changes have been merged into FreeBSD's carp > sources. Second, would it be more appropriate for me to attempt to merge > all of OpenBSD's changes to the carp device to FreeBSD, or only those > specific to supporting the carpdev functionality that I want? > > If I should send this to -net or elsewhere instead, please let me know > and I'll do that :) I think you should talk to Gleb Smirnoff (glebius@) who did the final impor= t=20 of carp and is taking care of it since. IIRC he had different plans for it= ,=20 but I am not sure what they were and if he got a chance to move forward. =2D-=20 /"\ Best regards, | mlaier@freebsd.org \ / Max Laier | ICQ #67774661 X http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/ | mlaier@EFnet / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News --nextPart3676555.Kq1r2fQ7YS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBEyKiEXyyEoT62BG0RAjg4AJ9eHqWdA8qOYs+uq3M1tOXyQREigwCeKA9x UfzouLQeV9VAOlAX6fcCBNA= =Vf8b -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3676555.Kq1r2fQ7YS--