From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Mar 8 6:31: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mailtoaster1.pipeline.ch (mailtoaster1.pipeline.ch [62.48.0.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9F70337B405 for ; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 06:31:03 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 46193 invoked from network); 8 Mar 2002 14:29:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO pipeline.ch) ([62.48.0.53]) (envelope-sender ) by mailtoaster1.pipeline.ch (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 8 Mar 2002 14:29:14 -0000 Message-ID: <3C88CAE6.6B5D026A@pipeline.ch> Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2002 15:29:58 +0100 From: Andre Oppermann X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brian Somers Cc: Luigi Rizzo , Brooks Davis , "Crist J. Clark" , Archie Cobbs , Julian Elischer , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Patches to if_loop + the interface cloning framework References: <200203081422.g28EMIH6060352@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brian Somers wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 10:23:35AM -0800, Brooks Davis wrote: > > > From a _practical_ standpoint, a loopback interface must be compiled > > > in at this time. However, that's not what Archie and I are arguing. > > > I'm arguing that since the requirement is not there in theory, we should > > > not be making moves which require it in practice. The direction I'd like > > > > speaking of which , would it be reasonable to merge if_disc and if_loop ? > > The former is basically a stripped down version of the latter, so > > it hardly justifies a separate device > > It'd also be reasonable to have if_disc create ``discN'' devices... > ``dsN'' doesn't seem... orthogonal :*I I would prefer to call it if_null or null0. This is what the routers call it. -- Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message