Subject: Re: Cloning network pseudo-devices
To: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
From: Hubert Feyrer <feyrer@rfhs8012.fh-regensburg.de>
List: tech-net
Date: 07/03/2000 01:51:27
On Sun, 2 Jul 2000, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
> Actually, I just thought about this again... I think I do not want
> to do this... because it is not possible to specify "include gif, but
> do not-precreate any".  That means that a user would ALWAYS have to
> special-case at least gif0, which I think is wrong.

Can you generate/allocate the interface on demand, i.e. if
someone tries to ifconfig gif17, just create it?


 - Hubert

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