Hi,
this has been taken care of. I just deleted the misleading sentences
from the lo(4) manual page. No replacement is needed.
Thanks for reporting,
Ingo
Hess THR wrote on Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 07:23:49PM +0200:
> who is "jmc" in the header? can someone cc him?
> or the people who are doing the doc? :)
>
> Many thanks.
>
> > Sent: Friday, April 27, 2018 at 3:28 PM
> > From: "Amelia A Lewis" <amyz...@talsever.com>
> > To: misc@openbsd.org
> > Subject: Re: /etc/netstart - order of operations (lo vs physical interfaces)
> >
> > A read of the script itself shows loopback initialized prior to
> > hardware interfaces, at least in 6.2 (haven't upgraded yet).
> >
> > On Fri, 27 Apr 2018 08:21:54 -0400, Gabriel Guzman wrote:
> > > Just a quick clarification, lo(4) says that the loopback interface
> > > should be configured last, and /etc/netstart seems to support this
> > > but netstart(8) says that the loopback interface is configured `before`
> > > physical interfaces:
> >
> > Date in the man page for lo(4) is 2013. I'm guessing that the network
> > system has moved on since then, and it's actually the lo(4) source
> > that's out of date.
> >
> > Or, possibly, the netstart authors aren't aware of the potential
> > problems, so started initializing loopback devices first, and ought to
> > change things.
> >
> > :-)
> >
> > Amy!
> > --
> > Amelia A. Lewis amyzing {at} talsever.com
> > There's someone in my head, but it's not me.
> > -- Pink Floyd
