Subject: Re: bin/33923: slattach(8) can't attach sl(4) interface
To: None <gnats-admin@netbsd.org, netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org,>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 07/08/2006 15:50:02
The following reply was made to PR bin/33923; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: christos@zoulas.com (Christos Zoulas)
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Subject: Re: bin/33923: slattach(8) can't attach sl(4) interface
Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2006 11:49:48 -0400
On Jul 8, 10:35am, cube@cubidou.net (Quentin Garnier) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: bin/33923: slattach(8) can't attach sl(4) interface
| 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().
|
Yes, most of the code can be stolen from ppp. It would be nice if it was
shared too (since we'll have 3 copies if we fix strip). Why don't you
take a stab at it?
christos