Re: Time to retire some ancient network pseudo-interfaces?

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <d347d599-da61-24e5-a1a7-3507d7135962%m00nbsd.net@localhost>,
Maxime Villard  <max%m00nbsd.net@localhost> wrote:
>Le 13/08/2018 à 08:07, Maxime Villard a écrit :
>> Le 07/08/2018 à 10:06, max%m00nbsd.net@localhost a écrit :
>>> We could easily retire etherip. It has never been enabled (worse: the
>>> option was not even present and commented out before I added it a few
>>> months ago), the code is shitty, buggy (eg watch the man page) and not
>>> MP-safe.
>>>
>>> Above all, the EtherIP spec (RFC3378) actually recommends dropping
>>> EtherIP and using L2TP instead. We do have L2TP -- written by the
>>> Japanese guys, so it works, it's MP-safe and everything.
>>>
>>> Basically people should use L2TP, and I don't see many reasons for
>>> keeping etherip, especially if it's low quality code. Retiring it would
>>> also prune one "unprotected" entry from the TODO.smpnet list.
>>
>> So what's up? Are we fine? I will remove it soon...
>>
>> Also, while I'm thinking about it, in terms of broken/unused interfaces
>> we also have NDIS, which I guess should be marked as "unprotected" in
>> TODO.smpnet, too.
>
>Does anyone have anything to say about NDIS?

I would delete it.

christos