conf/103428: devd(8): devd brings up network interfaces early and wrong

Rob Austein sra at hactrn.net
Wed Sep 20 16:10:26 PDT 2006


The following reply was made to PR conf/103428; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Rob Austein <sra at hactrn.net>
To: Brooks Davis <brooks at one-eyed-alien.net>
Cc: Rob Austein <sra at hactrn.net>,
	freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: conf/103428: devd(8): devd brings up network interfaces early and wrong
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 19:02:40 -0400

 > The following coupled with manually setting ipv6_network_interfaces
 > might be a decent option for now.
 
 Er, the first return in ipv6if() needs to be 1, not 0 (if IPv6 is
 disabled system-wide, don't bring it up on this interface), but other
 than that, this patch worked and seems like a reasonable stopgap.
 
 > Eventually I think we'll want to adjust the way this stuff works a
 > fair bit, but there's a limit to how much we can change in stable
 > since we definitely don't want to break existing setups.
 
 Completely understand, and agree.
 
 Thanks!


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