Dynamic loading of network kernel modules?

[David Horn]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Oliver Fromme <olli at lurza.secnetix.de> wrote:
> David Horn wrote:
>  > Oliver Fromme wrote:
>  > >
>  > >  network_interfaces="bge0 lo0"
>  >
>  > Ah.  Ok, now I am understanding your scenario.
>  >
>  > I thought that using 'network_interfaces' with anything other than
>  > "AUTO"  was in the process of being depreciated ?
>
> Well, the manual page says so, but I think that is a
> mistake.  There are cases where you have to specify the
> list of interfaces explicitly.  The situation described
> in this thread is one such case.

Good point.

>
> My opinion is that it is good to have the ability to let
> things be done automatically, but it is bad to remove the
> ability to do things manually.  This is UNIX, after all.

Exactly.  Both scenarios should probably be supported, but I guess we
would need to ask brooks for some history on the depreciated warning
for network_interfaces.

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src/etc/network.subr
Revision 1.185: download - view: text, markup, annotated - [selected for diffs]
Wed Apr 30 16:29:15 2008 UTC (10 months, 2 weeks ago) by brooks
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Diff to: previous 1.184: preferred, colored
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Emit a warning when the network_interfaces variable is not set to AUTO.

MFC after:	3 days
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--Thanks!

-_Dave H

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>   Oliver
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