Re: Loopback device dillema

2003-03-06 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Hiten Pandya writes: > Brooks Davis (Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 11:15:16AM -0800) wrote: > > Not to mention: > > > > netinet6/{in6_pcb.c,in6_src.c,ip6_input.c,ip6_output.c,nd6.c} > > > What is gained by making loopback default? > > Nothing is gained. But it's neccessary fix this, IMHO. Not

Re: Loopback device dillema

2003-03-06 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 02:29:30PM -0500, Hiten Pandya wrote: > > What is gained by making loopback default? > > Nothing is gained. But it's neccessary fix this, IMHO. Not to mention > that our loopback device code looks terribly ugly anyway. :-) I certaintly agree the loop interface could use

Re: Loopback device dillema

2003-03-06 Thread Hiten Pandya
Brooks Davis (Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 11:15:16AM -0800) wrote: > Not to mention: > > netinet6/{in6_pcb.c,in6_src.c,ip6_input.c,ip6_output.c,nd6.c} > What is gained by making loopback default? Nothing is gained. But it's neccessary fix this, IMHO. Not to mention that our loopback device code looks

Re: Loopback device dillema

2003-03-06 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 02:06:32PM -0500, Hiten Pandya wrote: > Brooks Davis (Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 11:00:11AM -0800) wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 01:38:54PM -0500, Hiten Pandya wrote: > > > To conclude, I would like to see the loopback device made default, and > > > if this is not agreed upon

Re: Loopback device dillema

2003-03-06 Thread Hiten Pandya
Brooks Davis (Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 11:00:11AM -0800) wrote: > On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 01:38:54PM -0500, Hiten Pandya wrote: > > To conclude, I would like to see the loopback device made default, and > > if this is not agreed upon, then someone needs to fix case when loopback > > device is not in th

Re: Loopback device dillema

2003-03-06 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 01:38:54PM -0500, Hiten Pandya wrote: > To conclude, I would like to see the loopback device made default, and > if this is not agreed upon, then someone needs to fix case when loopback > device is not in the kernel config, and is going to be loaded as a > module. What is g