Subject: Re: bin/33923: slattach(8) can't attach sl(4) interface
To: Quentin Garnier <cube@cubidou.net>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: tech-net
Date: 07/08/2006 16:48:29
On Jul 8,  7:56pm, cube@cubidou.net (Quentin Garnier) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: bin/33923: slattach(8) can't attach sl(4) interface

| By the way, as I have never used sl(4) nor strip(4), I wonder what
| clonification changed, beside the fact that the user has to create the
| interface by hand.  My reading of slattach.c seems to indicate that
| currently (and independently from the fact that sl(4) is clonable) there
| is no way to tell for sure which interface it has attached to.
| 
| Am I correct?
| 
| [Moved to tech-net because it's not really related to the PR anymore.]

Before cloning we created 2 slip devices and 2 strip devices in the kernel.
Now we create none.

christos