Re: rump shmif

[Robert Swindells <rjs%fdy2.co.uk@localhost>]

Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost> wrote:
>On 17/08/2020 22:19, Robert Swindells wrote:
>> 
>> Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost> wrote:
>>> On 17/08/2020 13:10, Robert Swindells wrote:
>>>> Have tried out the attached patch, dhcpcd(8) seems to work much better
>>>> with it.
>>>
>>> You don't need to add, set or remove all that media.
>> 
>> The media list is representative of an ethernet device and it matches
>> what is in tap(4).
>
>tap(4) is not a physical ethernet device though - it's a virtual
>one. There is no physical media and we should not pretend it has.
>
>My urtwn(4) is a physical ethernet interface as well and it's media list
>is totally different because it's wireless. Should tap(4) list this
>media as well because etherent is ethernet?
>
>Whilst I'm happy with adding the link status, I am opposed to adding any
>media to it.

It might be more useful if you could help get this stuff to work, we can
discuss the details of what gets committed to CVS later.

You wrote that the privsep code in dhcpcd(8) doesn't work under rump,
does the equivalent stuff in rtadvd need to be disabled for rump builds
too ?