ng_ether and vlan interfaces

[Nikolay Denev]

On 15.02.2011, at 18:53, Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Julian Elischer <julian at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> changing it to '_' might be accceptable,  '.' is much like '/' in th
>> filesystem.
>> it is a separator. You can't have it in the name.
>> a patch that converted . to _ would be a nice idea.
>> please ensure that the man page is updated as well.
>>
> Doesn't FreeBSD care about kernel/userland backward interface
> compatibility at all ? ie. will all my scripts assuming '.' as a
> separator need to also check the FreeBSD version to use whatever path
> separator ? How would you do that with bare ngctl script, which cannot
> be really that evolved ? How do you deal with node in the wild already
> using '_' in their name ?
>
> Thanks,
> - Arnaud

I'm actually thinking on doing the check and replacement of dots in
ng_ether, so it won't affect other netgraph consumers.

Regards,
Nikolay