From: Nick Barnes <Nick.Barnes@pobox.com>
To: bartv@redhat.com
Cc: ecos-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: [ECOS] Notes on static configuration of an eCos network interface
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 05:52:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <145.963924726@raven.ravenbrook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200007171359.OAA06167@sheesh.cygnus.co.uk>
At 2000-07-17 13:59:42+0000, Bart Veer writes:
> I am not qualified to answer most of these points, but:
>
> >>>>> "Nick" == Nick Barnes <Nick.Barnes@pobox.com> writes:
> Nick> Notes on static configuration of an eCos network interface
>
> <snip>
> Nick> 5.4. multiple static routes
>
> Nick> The config tool, build_bootp_record() and init_net() should
> Nick> be extended to allow the specification of multiple static
> Nick> routes, through TAG_IP_STATIC_ROUTES.
>
> The current implementation of CDL does not allow for multiple
> instantiations of something, e.g. you cannot have a configuration
> option that says I want n routes, and then configuration options
> are created on the fly to support the new routes (or existing
> configuration options are removed).
>
> Instead you could have an upper bound on the number of such routes and
> have the appropriate number of config options. Or you could put
> multiple routes into one configuration value, although extracting all
> the information at compile-time can then prove tricky. Alternatively
> the configury would support only the most common situation of a single
> route, with an opt-out to defer the whole thing to application code.
> I am not sure which of these approaches would be most appropriate in
> this case.
Either way. This isn't very important to me.
Another option would be to have a single string option for additional
static routes, which is then parsed in network_support.c.
It's an interesting problem. As other writers have pointed out,
there's a case for taking this out of the kernel configuration
altogether. For my project I'm now intending to use the ioctl()s
directly, and never call init_all_network_interfaces().
Nick B
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-07-18 5:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-07-17 5:45 Nick Barnes
2000-07-17 6:59 ` Bart Veer
2000-07-17 7:07 ` [ECOS] Notes on static configuration of an eCos network inte Gary Thomas
2000-07-18 5:52 ` Nick Barnes [this message]
2000-07-18 8:03 ` [ECOS] Notes on static configuration of an eCos network interface Grant Edwards
2000-07-17 8:52 ` Grant Edwards
2000-07-17 9:03 ` [ECOS] Notes on static configuration of an eCos network inte Gary Thomas
2000-07-17 9:28 ` Andrew Lunn
2000-07-17 9:40 ` Grant Edwards
2000-07-17 9:47 ` Andrew Lunn
2000-07-17 9:29 ` Grant Edwards
2000-07-17 9:45 ` Gary Thomas
2000-07-17 10:01 ` Grant Edwards
2000-07-17 9:45 ` [ECOS] Notes on static configuration of an eCos network interface Hugo 'NOx' Tyson
2000-07-20 7:00 ` Hugo 'NOx' Tyson
2000-07-20 9:57 ` Bart Veer
2000-07-20 11:00 ` Hugo 'NOx' Tyson
2000-07-20 11:19 ` Bart Veer
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