Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 14:15:47 +0200 From: Max Laier <max@love2party.net> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> Cc: cvs-src@freebsd.org, Yar Tikhiy <yar@freebsd.org>, Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netinet ip_carp.c Message-ID: <200510261416.09346.max@love2party.net> In-Reply-To: <20051026105820.X32255@fledge.watson.org> References: <200510260557.j9Q5vZ7J076711@repoman.freebsd.org> <20051026093536.GF41520@cell.sick.ru> <20051026105820.X32255@fledge.watson.org>
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--nextPart1391944.u5ptIuUrKn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday 26 October 2005 11:58, Robert Watson wrote: > On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Gleb Smirnoff wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 10:15:09AM +0100, Robert Watson wrote: > > R> I think we may actually be in need of either a new flag, > > R> IFF_OKSODONTTREATTHISQUITELIKEANINTERFACE, or maybe a more reliable > > way R> for protocols to ask if an interface is a loopback interface or > > not. > > > > I'd prefer to rewrite those subsystems that use interface layer but > > aren't actually interfaces. I have plans to do this for CARP. > > At least in the case of if_disc, this won't help. I'm not quite sure why > if_disc is IFF_LOOPBACK. Sad answer seems to be: copy and paste. IFF_LOOPBACK is part of 1.1 which= =20 also contains the following comment: /* * Discard interface driver for protocol testing and timing. * (Based on the loopback.) */ So it might be a good idea to get rid of it and work from there. =2D-=20 /"\ Best regards, | mlaier@freebsd.org \ / Max Laier | ICQ #67774661 X http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/ | mlaier@EFnet / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News --nextPart1391944.u5ptIuUrKn Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDX3OJXyyEoT62BG0RAnHxAJ9Qg9t6x/Zu+JHZE+UmS986W9KO3QCfVDzs aRWDTyxsRbJy2gc9+D0ZbOE= =POH8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1391944.u5ptIuUrKn--
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