Re: Specifying names for tap interfaces

[Darren Reed <darrenr%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On 21/06/2012 5:34 AM, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 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".

Why aren't you happy?

> I think some use case
> will want the name, some other will want the alias (and you may need both
> at the same time).

Such as...?

Darren