On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 08:46:59AM +0100, Sedat Dilek wrote: > Hi Guillaume, > > can you explain why you moved ppp to rtnetlink device handling? > Benefits, etc.? > The objective is to bring all the flexibility of rtnetlink device creation to ppp interfaces. This is particularly useful for Network Access Servers which need to define device properties at creation time. My use case includes setting device name and netns, which is impossible with the ioctl-based interface without generating transient effects.
> Does anything change when using NetworkManager/ModemManager/pppd for > my network setup/handling (here: Ubuntu/precise AMD64)? > No. The ioctl-based ABI remains unchanged, so programs using it won't see any difference. The rtnl ABI only brings a new way to create PPP devices. Whether a ppp device is created with the ioctl or rtnl ABI doesn't change its behaviour. In particular ppp devices created with rtnl can still be configured with the old ioctls. The only difference I can think of, is that managing ppp devices with rtnl allows a user to remove it with "ip link del", while this is not possible with ppp devices created with ioctl. > Thanks in advance. > You're welcome. Guillaume -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
