Subject: Re: Cloning network pseudo-devices
To: None <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
List: tech-net
Date: 07/02/2000 18:18:49 
On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 01:51:27AM +0200, Hubert Feyrer wrote:

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

No, because that is not necessarily the correct thing to do.

I.e. what if I accidentally fat-finger "gif9" when I meant "gif0"?

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>