cvs commit: src/sys/netinet ip_carp.c

Robert Watson rwatson at FreeBSD.org
Wed Oct 26 02:58:44 PDT 2005


On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 10:15:09AM +0100, Robert Watson wrote:
> R> I think we may actually be in need of either a new flag,
> R> IFF_OKSODONTTREATTHISQUITELIKEANINTERFACE, or maybe a more reliable way
> R> for protocols to ask if an interface is a loopback interface or not.
>
> I'd prefer to rewrite those subsystems that use interface layer but 
> aren't actually interfaces. I have plans to do this for CARP.

At least in the case of if_disc, this won't help.  I'm not quite sure why 
if_disc is IFF_LOOPBACK.

Robert N M Watson


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