The following reply was made to PR bin/33923; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Quentin Garnier <cube@cubidou.net>
To: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org, tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp
Subject: Re: bin/33923: slattach(8) can't attach sl(4) interface
Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2006 12:30:49 +0200

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 On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 12:19:49PM -0400, Christos Zoulas wrote:
 > On Jul 6,  3:40pm, tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp (Izumi Tsutsui) wrote:
 > -- Subject: Re: bin/33923: slattach(8) can't attach sl(4) interface
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 > | The following reply was made to PR bin/33923; it has been noted by GNAT=
 S.
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 > | From: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp>
 > | To: christos@zoulas.com
 > | Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org, gnats-admin@NetBSD.org,
 > | 	tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp
 > | Subject: Re: bin/33923: slattach(8) can't attach sl(4) interface
 > | Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 00:39:06 +0900
 > |=20
 > |  christos@zoulas.com wrote:
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 > |  > | >  | slattach: TIOCSETD: Device not configured
 > |  > | >  ifconfig sl0 create?
 > |  > | Umm, you are right.
 > |  > | I'll note about it sl(4) and slattach(8) man pages...
 > |  >=20
 > |  > The question is: Should we just document this as you suggest, or sho=
 uld
 > |  > we make the creation/deletion automatic in slattach?
 > | =20
 > |  Well, I'd prefer the latter, but I can do only the former
 > |  because I don't have a good idea how to modify slattach
 > |  to create interfaces automatically. Currently it doesn't
 > |  take an interface name arg.
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 > Right, unlike pppd I don't think that slattach has a way to tell bind to
 > slX, or even find what you are bound. So let's fix the man page, for now.
 
 sl(4) does have SLIOCGUNIT, so slattach has a way to tell which sl(4)
 device it was bound to.  Having the interface automatically created is
 just a matter of having slopen() do it, just like pppopen() calls
 pppalloc().
 
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 Quentin Garnier - cube@cubidou.net - cube@NetBSD.org
 "When I find the controls, I'll go where I like, I'll know where I want
 to be, but maybe for now I'll stay right here on a silent sea."
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