Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 23:10:59 +0100 From: Richard Nyberg <rnyberg@it.su.se> To: freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Suggestion on natd rc scripts Message-ID: <20020215231058.A23326@gromit.it.su.se> In-Reply-To: <B892BFE3.A2B9%freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org>; from freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org on Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 01:38:44pm -0700 References: <002f01c1b65d$13834bb0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> <B892BFE3.A2B9%freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org>
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> I suggest that natd_interface="" be in the defaults. If you add > natd_enable=yes to your rc.conf, it is then your responsibility to set > natd_flags and/or natd_interface to something that will work for you. > > In rc.network, if natd_enable is Yes, then it validates that either (or > both) of natd_flags and natd_interface have non-empty values. If so, it > starts natd. If natd_enable is Yes and both flags and interface are empty, > it whines and doesn't start natd. > > The only downside I can see to this change is that people who currently have > Intel Etherexpress NICs and have just natd_enable=yes in their rc.conf would > have to add natd_interface=fxp0 as part of their next upgrade. Everyone > else is already going to have a natd_interface=<something> in their rc.conf > and nothing would need to change. And those of us who want to specify the > interface in our natd.conf files will have the option of doing so and will > be able to remove the natd_interface=<something> from our rc.conf. All of the above is exactly what I thought, and thus totally correct ;) > Who decided that Intel NICs should get primacy over other brands in this > case anyway? Were payoffs involved? Was pressure brought to bear? Do we > need the ISU to investigate? :-) I wondered about that too. -Richard To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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