Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 11:15:16 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Hiten Pandya <hiten@unixdaemons.com> Cc: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Loopback device dillema Message-ID: <20030306111516.A19108@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <20030306190632.GB55182@unixdaemons.com>; from hiten@unixdaemons.com on Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 02:06:32PM -0500 References: <20030306183854.GA47557@unixdaemons.com> <20030306110011.B27325@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <20030306190632.GB55182@unixdaemons.com>
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On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 02:06:32PM -0500, Hiten Pandya wrote:
> Brooks Davis (Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 11:00:11AM -0800) wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 01:38:54PM -0500, Hiten Pandya wrote:
> > > To conclude, I would like to see the loopback device made default, and
> > > if this is not agreed upon, then someone needs to fix case when loopb=
ack
> > > device is not in the kernel config, and is going to be loaded as a
> > > module.
> >=20
> > What is gained by making loopback default? It's true that you need a
> > loopback device, but that's a bug not a feature.
>=20
> Right, I do not have a problem with that, but that just means someone
> needs to fix that in netinet/if_ether.c, and netinet/igmp.c.
Not to mention:
netinet6/{in6_pcb.c,in6_src.c,ip6_input.c,ip6_output.c,nd6.c}
but that wasn't my point. I ask again:
What is gained by making loopback default?
-- Brooks
--=20
Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE.
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