On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 06:25:40PM -0500, Mark Johnston wrote: > Pseudo-interface cloning overhauled > ----------------------------------- > Brooks Davis (brooks) reworked the code for cloning of pseudo-interfaces, > which are network interfaces that don't correspond to a hardware adapter, > like vlan, lo, and ppp. His work adds locking and cleans up the code, but > the only user-visible change is that stf (the IPv6 over IPv4 tunnelling > interface) now creates an interface named 'stf' instead of 'stf0', and > when creating this interface with 'ifconfig stf', ifconfig does not print > 'stf0' to the standard output. You will need to rebuild modules that use > cloning for this change. There's a small error in this pat of the summary. It is not the case that stf interfaces are created instead of stf0 interfaces in all cases. Here's a table showing the changes. Command DEV Version ifconfig stf stf0 old ifconfig stf0 stf0 old ifconfig 6to4 <fail> old ifconfig stf stf new ifconfig stf0 stf0 new ifconfig 6to4 6to4 new -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4
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