Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 11:16:57 -0500 (EST) From: Matthew George <mdg@secureworks.net> To: Max Laier <max@love2party.net> Cc: freebsd-pf@freebsd.org Subject: Re: please test: ifstated(8) patches Message-ID: <20041118111240.M65727@localhost> In-Reply-To: <200411180200.10755.max@love2party.net> References: <200411180200.10755.max@love2party.net>
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On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Max Laier wrote: > On Wednesday 17 November 2004 22:54, Matthew George wrote: > > I've gone and ported OpenBSD's ifstated(8) to FreeBSD. > > Nice! Good that you found the sysctl's to substitute the SIOCGIFDATA > ioctl. I > haven't yet had time to look at it, but that seems to close bin/73877 > [1], or > is there any functionality that you are missing? Doesn't look like it > from > your diff. looks good to me > > > The attached ifstated.patch will apply against src/usr.sbin/ifstated/* > > from OpenBSD's cvs, and compiles cleanly against RELENG_5_3. > > Very nice, would you mind to turn it into a proper port? Just drop me a > tarball if you don't have somewhere to host it. I don't know if ifstated > > should go into the base-system. It looks like it should be able to run > as a > port just fine? sure thing ... I'll wrap it up and PR it today or tomorrow > > > The ifstated.conf.patch is basically the same as OpenBSD's, except for > a > > ping command line option. The config file has a comment in it noting > that > > net.inet.carp.preempt must be set to '1' in order for it to work. I > > performed my testing with it set to '0', and it seemed to be fine for > me. > > Is there a problem with preempt in the patchset right now? I didn't test it, so I'm not sure. The comment was from OpenBSD ... > > > The config script calls ifconfig on carp interfaces for its actions, > but > > that's the only requirement for carp ... it should work fine for > non-carp > > kernels with the proper config script. > > Again, thanks a lot! > Everybody, please help testing. > > > [1] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/73877 > > -- Matthew George SecureWorks Technical Operations 404.327.6339
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