if_fwe -> BURN_BRIDGES?

Robert Watson rwatson at FreeBSD.org
Sat Jul 3 14:45:39 PDT 2004


On Sat, 3 Jul 2004, Bruce M Simpson wrote:

> Now that we have dfr's IP-over-1394 code in the tree, I suggest we
> consider depracating if_fwe(4) as it's nonstandard anyway. What does
> everyone else think? 

If the if_fwe code is present in FreeBSD 4.x, but dfr's new IP over
firewire code isn't, I'd suggest a more gentle deprecation path so that
6.x and 4.x can talk to each other :-). 

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert at fledge.watson.org      Principal Research Scientist, McAfee Research





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