cvs commit: src/sys/netinet in.c

Gleb Smirnoff glebius at FreeBSD.org
Fri Aug 19 09:22:25 GMT 2005


On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 01:21:16AM +0200, Jeremie Le Hen wrote:
J> >   FreeBSD src repository
J> > 
J> >   Modified files:
J> >     sys/netinet          in.c 
J> >   Log:
J> >   In order to support CARP interfaces kernel was taught to handle more
J> >   than one interface in one subnet. However, some userland apps rely on
J> >   the believe that this configuration is impossible.
J> >   
J> >   Add a sysctl switch net.inet.ip.same_prefix_carp_only. If the switch
J> >   is on, then kernel will refuse to add an additional interface to
J> >   already connected subnet unless the interface is CARP. Default
J> >   value is off.
J> >   
J> >   PR:                     bin/82306
J> >   In collaboration with:  mlaier
J> 
J> First, thanks for you work.
J> Do you plan to drop a line about this in a manual page ?  I would like
J> to help you on this, but I don't think I'm the good guy to do it,
J> since I don't even use carp(4) interfaces.

The question is which man page to choose, so that people interested in
disabling this feature would find it themselves. Definitely not carp(4).
May be ip(4)? 

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