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[Evan Anderson <evan.k.anderson@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Apr 8, 2005 7:57 AM, David Enderson <DEnderson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I've no idea about that, but I think that a userspace application is
> > definitely okay for now.
> >
> 
> Ok, I'll try to do that.  If I get that working and we think we need it
> as a module, it can always be modified.  :-)

I would vote for that, as well.  Actually, it would also be great if
the code could support auto-configuration (or other types of address
assignment) based on a config file.  The four I can think of are:

1) RARP (rfc 903)
2) BOOTP (rfc 1534)
3) DHCP (rfc 2131)
4) ZeroConf (draft rfc:draft-ietf-zeroconf-ipv4-linklocal-17)

I included the first two for completeness, but having ZeroConf support
would be very nice.  I'd prefer to see these as userspace programs to
manage the interfaces, possibly configurable on a per-interface basis.
 So you could say something like:
eth0: DHCP or ZeroConf
eth1: Fixed-IP
ppp0: DHCP

But I don't think there's a need to put this into the kernel, so long
as there is a way to register device changes to a userspace program
(which seems like a more flexible idea to me, as well as safer than
adding code to the kernel).