On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 08:27:37AM -0700, Peter Wemm wrote:
> Personally, I'd prefer create/destroy instead of plumb/unplumb. The Solaris
> plumb command is for doing 'STREAMS plumbing' - ie: connecting all the
> streams pipes and modules together. Creating/deleting interfaces on
> BSD systems IMHO has nothing in common with that concept. We are
> creating/destroying interfaces, not connecting/disconnecting streams
> nodes (plumbing).
I've made create/destory the default names with plumb and unplumb
standing in as SysV compatability parameters because that seems to be
the ifconfig way. The diff at:
http://www.one-eyed-alien.net/~brooks/FreeBSD/gif.diff
has been updated. I'm still thinking about adopting the NetBSD
SIOIF{CREATE,DESTORY} interface.
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