Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 17:09:33 -0500 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org> To: Ruben van Staveren <ruben@verweg.com> Cc: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Do you use a value other than AUTO for network_interfaces? Message-ID: <20090602220933.GE15552@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> In-Reply-To: <EA04BF4C-AE45-4624-9C1B-152FC26405C4@verweg.com> References: <4A257B82.1000701@FreeBSD.org> <EA04BF4C-AE45-4624-9C1B-152FC26405C4@verweg.com>
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--Q8BnQc91gJZX4vDc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 10:30:46PM +0200, Ruben van Staveren wrote: >=20 > On 2 Jun 2009, at 21:20, Doug Barton wrote: >=20 >> Up till Sunday in 8-current, and for a long time in general >> network.subr (part of the rc.d system) has emitted a warning that >> values of network_interfaces other than AUTO are deprecated. I removed >> that warning in HEAD Sunday, and there is no a discussion about >> whether or not it should be put back, and whether or not there is any >> need for the user to specify the list of network interfaces at all. >=20 > Well, I do. >=20 > I only want to configure only the interfaces that are connected and that = I=20 > know about. especially in combination with IPv6 there is a nit that you'l= l=20 > get autoconfiguration for all interfaces unless they are all explicitly= =20 > configured. See my other post on why this is a needless worry for the IPv4 case. > e.g. bge0 connected, bge1 not, v6 autoconf on the lan. if I don't do a=20 > ipv6_ifconfig_bge1=3D"down" and nail network_interfaces to bge0 bge1 lo0 = only=20 > I'll get autoconfiguration of v6 where I don't want it to be. >=20 >=20 > Being a bit of my own devils advocate here, network_interfaces=3D"AUTO" i= s=20 > already true for ipv6. with network_interfaces=3D"bge0 lo0" network.subr= =20 > nevertheless sees bge1, and no configuration and takes the responsibility= =20 > of starting ipv6 autoconfiguration for it. The IPv6 case is clearly a bug. We should really consolidate the two cases and I think there are patches to do so if someone wants to setup up and help get them in. -- Brooks --Q8BnQc91gJZX4vDc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFKJaMbXY6L6fI4GtQRApXSAJ409BZvxW77XiaT8jHFpTh5YJgHEQCg2AiK y4z8ZdrHH5k//BBnWsrv4mc= =lupY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Q8BnQc91gJZX4vDc--
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