Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 01:28:27 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> Cc: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.ORG>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@cygnus.rush.net>, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: Warning: ioctl(... TUNSLMODE ...) to be depricated.... Message-ID: <200001230128.BAA02749@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> of "22 Jan 2000 02:12:40 %2B0100." <xzppuuulxiv.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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> Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> writes:
> > Unless there are objections in the next day or two, I'm going to
> > deprecate the TUNSLMODE ioctl favour of TUNSIFHEAD. Where TUNSLMODE
> > prepended a sockaddr to each packet, TUNSIFHEAD will instead prepend a
> > 4-byte network-byte-order address family.
>
> Don't take it out quite yet. I asked Alfred to implement TUNSLMODE for
> a reason; I was working on some VPN software at the time. There are
> cases where you want a full sockaddr, not just the address family. The
> next-hop address is not necessarily the same as the destination
> address, if the interface is in broadcast mode (as opposed to ptp).
[half-understanding-grumble]
This sounds like a bit of a hack :-( I was seconds away from nuking
TUNSLMODE ;oD [put that axe away !]
[/half-understanding-grumble]
I'll leave the support there, but TUNSIFHEAD will disable TUNSLMODE
and vice versa.
> DES
> --
> Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no
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