Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: only the loopback interface should provide net

[Alexandre Rostovtsev <tetromino@gentoo.org>]

On Mon, 2012-02-06 at 19:41 -0600, William Hubbs wrote:
> > My counterproposal is to 
> > (a) fix init scripts for Category 2 so that instead of "use net" or
> > "need net", they only "use net.lo" or "need net.lo"; and
> 
> I think it would be better if I provided another service these scripts
> could use|need, because the loopback goes by at least one name other than
> "lo" that I know of, and that is "lo0", so if I don't provide a service,
> all of these scripts would have to conditionally use or need at least lo
> or lo0 depending on which platform they are running on.

Maybe a virtual service called "lo", provided by net.lo and net.lo0?

> For the normal use case, I submit that category one should not care
> about the loopback interface, since we don't make remote connections
> that way. That would mean that loopback would not provide net by
> default.

Yes, that certainly seems reasonable.

-Alexandre