From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Aug 17 10:54:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E535E37B40B for ; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 10:54:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f7HHsJG31906; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 10:54:19 -0700 Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 10:54:19 -0700 From: Brooks Davis To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Jones Begone , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problem with gif devices using GENERIC Message-ID: <20010817105419.A26870@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <127159937320.20010816215503@robotslave.net> <20010816212119.B82603@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="IS0zKkzwUGydFO0o" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010816212119.B82603@xor.obsecurity.org>; from kris@obsecurity.org on Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 09:21:19PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --IS0zKkzwUGydFO0o Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 09:21:19PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > You need to create them explicitly now with 'ifconfig create'. The > benefit is that you no longer have to prespecify the number of gif > interfaces at kernel compile-time, they can be created on the fly. > Just create them with the appropriate ifconfig_gif<#> entry in > rc.conf. Actually, to get them created through rc.conf you need a gifconfig_gif<#> entry or an appropriate /etc/start_if.gif<#> file. This is somewhat of a bug since gifconfig_ entries don't actually call gifconfig anymore and are a bit obsolete. I think what we probably want to do is add some code to check for the interface and then attempt to create it if it doesn't exist. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --IS0zKkzwUGydFO0o Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7fVpKXY6L6fI4GtQRAlsuAKDoZY4Lv4rAcQtZGJ2epH8qCLAaEQCg2ivU MiflZcKoJN+DtMiurdSi3Mc= =1ZBE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --IS0zKkzwUGydFO0o-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message