On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 11:24:41PM -0700, Wes Peters wrote:
> > I'm afraid to even contemplate the POLA and backward compatability
> > issues involved.
>
> Why would we need to violate POLA? The obvious default would be to
> extend ifconfig to configure the new protocol types, and to assume
> EthII framing unless explicitly specified.
Well.. It's a change to ifconfig for normal interface configuraton.
I also wasn't aware that ifconfig handles netgraph node creation,
I thought you (currently) used ngctl or libnetgraph for that.
> Perhaps so. If someone does the work to move EthII into netgraph, I can
> certainly contribute a SNAP/LLC module, and maybe even extensions to
> ifconfig so you can use it. ;^)
If we continue to dicuss this, and this is the correct direction to
head, I'd volunteer to take a first-pass at the code.
- Steve
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