Re: Time to retire some ancient network pseudo-interfaces?

[Maxime Villard <max%m00nbsd.net@localhost>]

Le 25/08/2018 à 07:01, Christos Zoulas a écrit :
> In article <d347d599-da61-24e5-a1a7-3507d7135962%m00nbsd.net@localhost>,
> Maxime Villard  <max%m00nbsd.net@localhost> wrote:
> > Le 13/08/2018 à 08:07, Maxime Villard a écrit :
> > > Le 07/08/2018 à 10:06, max%m00nbsd.net@localhost a écrit :
> > > > We could easily retire etherip. It has never been enabled (worse: the
> > > > option was not even present and commented out before I added it a few
> > > > months ago), the code is shitty, buggy (eg watch the man page) and not
> > > > MP-safe.
> > > >
> > > > Above all, the EtherIP spec (RFC3378) actually recommends dropping
> > > > EtherIP and using L2TP instead. We do have L2TP -- written by the
> > > > Japanese guys, so it works, it's MP-safe and everything.
> > > >
> > > > Basically people should use L2TP, and I don't see many reasons for
> > > > keeping etherip, especially if it's low quality code. Retiring it would
> > > > also prune one "unprotected" entry from the TODO.smpnet list.
> > >
> > > So what's up? Are we fine? I will remove it soon...
> > >
> > > Also, while I'm thinking about it, in terms of broken/unused interfaces
> > > we also have NDIS, which I guess should be marked as "unprotected" in
> > > TODO.smpnet, too.
> >
> > Does anyone have anything to say about NDIS?
>
> I would delete it.

Yes, let's remove it.

Note that I'm talking about the code in dev/if_ndis and compat/ndis, and that
this doesn't impact urndis, which is a USB driver enabled by default, which
has its own NDIS code.