From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: greearb@candelatech.com
Cc: khc@pm.waw.pl, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Why is gre0 auto-created, and can we fix it?
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:40:36 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120121.134036.1565691107664746948.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F1AFA84.5050201@candelatech.com>
From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 09:48:52 -0800
> On 01/21/2012 09:39 AM, Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
>> Ben Greear<greearb@candelatech.com> writes:
>>
>>>>> As far as I can tell, no other interfaces are auto-created
>>>>> in this manner.
>>>>
>>>> ip6tnl0 and sit0 do it too, just grep for alloc_netdev() under
>>>> net/{ipv4,ipv6}/
>>>
>>> So, no changing the behaviour?
>>
>> Perhaps making it CONFIGurable would be safe enough, not that I like
>> CONFIG options for all tiny details (one may argue it's not a tiny
>> detail).
>>
>> Haven't looked at the actual code.
>
> Seems like it could be a run-time configurable, maybe module or boot
> option
> or sysctl or something.
I would seriously prefer that you not do this.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-21 18:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-03 19:49 Why is gre0 auto-created, and can we fix it? Ben Greear
2012-01-03 19:59 ` David Miller
2012-01-03 20:03 ` Ben Greear
2012-01-03 20:11 ` David Miller
2012-01-21 17:39 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2012-01-21 17:48 ` Ben Greear
2012-01-21 18:40 ` David Miller [this message]
2012-01-22 16:48 ` Ben Greear
2012-01-22 19:14 ` David Miller
2012-01-22 19:43 ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-01-22 21:00 ` Ben Greear
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