Re: Updated: Enabling tap interfaces in pfinet

Samuel Thibault <[email protected]> Thu, 30 Jul 2026 01:30:07 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.os.hurd.bugs
Organization I am not organized
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Bradley Morgan, le jeu. 30 juil. 2026 00:28:13 +0100, a ecrit:
> On 30 July 2026 00:16:41 BST, Ralph Ronnquist <[email protected]> wrote:
> >Fair enough. I've attached the merged patch here, and then took the
> >opportunity to fix up the tap mac address logic as well.
> >
> >There's still a problem in using a direct mapping of the tap name to
> >mac address since then a virtual cable between two hosts will require
> >there being differently named taps. Perhaps it really needs an
> >additional pfnet argument for that.
> >
> 
> I'm still concerned as to why people in hurd sends their patches as
> attachments...

That's really not a problem to me when it's properly identified as a
text attachment, when I reply with mutt it gets inlined automatically.

Samuel