Re: Updated: Enabling tap interfaces in pfinet

Bradley Morgan <[email protected]> Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:39:15 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.os.hurd.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 30 July 2026 00:30:07 BST, Samuel Thibault <[email protected]>
wrote:
>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.

My concern is that some clients aren't as lucky, could users send the
patches contents either through their client, or through a alternate tool
like git send-email? So people like me can review without paining myself
By opening the file and copy and pasting the context, which 
gets pretty annoying 



>Samuel
>
>

Thanks!