Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 23:11:32 +0200 From: Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org> To: Mike Makonnen <mtm@FreeBSD.Org> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-rc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Merging rc.d/network_ipv6 into rc.d/netif Message-ID: <20070403211132.GL5155@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> In-Reply-To: <20070329182906.GB38703@rogue.navcom.lan> References: <20070329182906.GB38703@rogue.navcom.lan>
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Hi Mike, Thank you for working on this. I'm always glad to see someone working on homogenization. I dare to post a few comments though: On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 09:29:06PM +0300, Mike Makonnen wrote: > What it does > ------------ > - rc.d/network_ipv6 is no longer necessary and can be removed > - IPv6 configuration is done on each interface in rc.d/netif along with IPv4 > - IPv6 routing and options processing is done in rc.d/routing along with IPv4 > - You can now do things like: > # Start/Stop IPv6 on all interfaces > /etc/rc.d/netif (start|stop) ip6 > # Start/Stop IPv6 only on interface rl0 > /etc/rc.d/netif (start|stop) rl0 ip6 > # Do IPv6 options processing > /etc/rc.d/routing options ip6 As Dag-Erling said, it may conflict with a future if_ip. Moreover, network interfaces are renameable, so the namespace conflict is even more likely. Although it breaks the standard rc(8) syntax, I would personaly prefer: /etc/rc.d/netif (start6|stop6) rl0 BTW, the proposed syntax isn't very usual either :). > - In order to differentiate between v4 and v6 configuration directives some > knobs in rc.conf(5)have been renamed with an ipv4_ prefix: > network_interfaces > ifconfig_DEFAULT > ifconfig_<interface> > ifconfig_<interface>_aliasX > defaultrouter > gateway_enable > static_routes > etc... > > - Modify all scripts that reference old knobs (without ipv4_ prefix) to > reference the new version of the knobs > > - Compatibility shims in rc.subr(8) so that old uses of knobs without an > ipv4_ prefix work as expected. As part of this change split the > code for this processing into its own function: old2new_knobs() This is neat. What about issuing a warning in order to make a quicker transition ? Again, thank you for working on this. Best regards, -- Jeremie Le Hen < jeremie at le-hen dot org >< ttz at chchile dot org >
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