Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 20:24:06 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org> Cc: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>, "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.ORG>, Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Patches to if_loop + the interface cloning framework Message-ID: <80824.1015269846@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 04 Mar 2002 10:32:42 PST." <20020304103242.A67658@iguana.icir.org>
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In message <20020304103242.A67658@iguana.icir.org>, Luigi Rizzo writes: >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 I find if_disc useful sometimes, in particular being able to blackhole trafic and use SNMP to monitor the throughput. If you can merge it into if_loop in a sensible way I'm all for it. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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