Re: Specifying names for tap interfaces

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 05:08:13AM +1000, Darren Reed wrote:
> No, this is not the right approach and I don't think that a short cut
> solution like this belongs in NetBSD.
> 
> As you noticed, this requires changes to other utilities in order to work.

beside ifconfig, I'm not sure.

> 
> If your project requires any changes to brconfig, netstat, ifconfig, ipf,
> npf, tcpdump, etc, then you've got the wrong solution in hand. Each network
> interface should have one name and one name only as far as userland is
> concerned. If there are userland programs (aside from device management)

I'm not happy with the "one name and one name only". I think some use case
will want the name, some other will want the alias (and you may need both
at the same time).

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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