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Date:      Tue, 25 Sep 2001 16:20:01 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: kern/30653: KAME option MAX_GIF_NEST missing from /usr/src/sys/conf/options
Message-ID:  <200109252320.f8PNK1e43374@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR kern/30653; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To: Lars Eggert <larse@isi.edu>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: kern/30653: KAME option MAX_GIF_NEST missing from /usr/src/sys/conf/options
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 16:10:54 -0700

 On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 01:56:53PM -0700, Lars Eggert wrote:
 > The KAME kernel option MAX_GIF_NEST limits the number of recursive gif
 > tunnels that the system allows (tunnels in tunnels).
 > 
 > This option has never been merged into the FreeBSD options file. The
 > code that goes with it *does* exist in the FreeBSD tree, the problem
 > is that the option isn't included in /usr/src/sys/conf/options, and
 > thus that code cannot be enabled.
 > 
 > The code enabled by MAX_GIF_NEST is cricital to the correct operation
 > to the X-Bone port in net/xbone. Could this be added, please?
 
 I think this is the wrong solution to this problem.  Instead, a sysctl
 under the currently non-existant net.link.gif branch should be used to
 control the value of max_gif_nesting at runtime.  IMO, XBONEHACK should
 probably be controled similarly so you don't need to recompile gif to
 use xbone.  I've added this to my todo list, but the funding I was using
 to hack gif dried up a month or so ago so I don't know what I'll get to
 it.
 
 FWIW, you can set this option in -current (and probably -stable) by
 adding a line like this to your kernel config:
 
 makeoptions	CONF_CFLAGS="-DMAX_GIF_NEST=32"
 
 -- Brooks

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