On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 09:20:18 -0800 Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> wrote: > > Would it be too complicated, if sysctl would give the global default, > > from which one can deviate using RTAX_FEATURE? > > Maybe for frto it needs to stay, but sysctl's are more painful and complex > than keeping the stuff in the routing info. Also, the external tools are > part of every distro, except for a few embedded systems, the networking code > depends on user tools already. How do you propose to support some kind of "global enable" for features. I think sysctl's support this quite well. The test for the feature becomes "sysctl || route_attribute". Also, as Yoshfuji stated, you absolutely cannot change the existing sysctl numbers as tools that use the sysctl() system call use those numbers explicitly thus they are compiled into applications. I really am not going to consider something that removes existing sysctl tunables. :-) - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
