Reserving a couple of names for custom developed netgraph nodes

[Julian Elischer]

On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Paolo Pisati wrote:

> 
> Like the subjects says,
> 
> I think it would be nice to reserve a couple of names (like
> ng_cust1 & ng_cust2) for user developed netgraph nodes (something
> like unix did with major&minor numbers of device).
> 
> With a couple of spare nodes it would be possible
> to develop and test new netgraph nodes without overwriting already
> existing nodes i.e. ng_tee.

why ?

you can choose any string upto 15 characters
why not use ng_paolo1 and ng_paolo2 etc.....
I don't see a gain..

> 
> What do you think about it?

I'm not against it but I don't see a need..
nothing has any pre-knowledge of node names..
they are arbitrary strings.....

> 
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> Paolo
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