On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 02:38:07PM +0200, Klemens Nanni wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 10:07:58AM +0200, Peter Hessler wrote:
> > On 2018 Apr 11 (Wed) at 23:01:45 +0200 (+0200), Klemens Nanni wrote:
> > :On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 09:28:03AM +0200, Peter Hessler wrote:
> > :> No, all of these uses are correct as-is.
> > :`tableid' surely isn't wrong, but using the argument name across manuals
> > :seems nicer to me.
> > :
> > 
> > No, they are different things.  Different names help with the concept.
> > 
> > 
> > :Or is there any real difference between `tableid' and `rtable' I'm not
> > :aware of?
> > :
> > 
> > rtables are layer 3.
> > 
> > rdomains are layer 2 (aka, arp and ndp lookups).
> > 
> > You can have multiple rtables within an rdomain.  An interface can only
> > be a member of a single rdomain at a time.
> Maybe my first mail wasn't clear enough: I'm talking about routing
> *tables* only.
> 
> Specifically, how they are referred to as `rtable' and `tableid' across
> different manual pages.
> 
> I propose to use `rtable' exclusively to ease searching and improve
> consistency as that's the wording already used across the majority of
> manuals including rtabe(4) and pf.conf(5) for example.
Ping.

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