Update the ng_iface documentation and hooks to reflect the fact that the
node currently only supports IPv4 and v6 packets.
Reviewed by: Lutz Donnerhacke
MFC after: 1 week
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D25862
AppleTalk was a network transport protocol for Apple Macintosh devices
in 80s and then 90s. Starting with Mac OS X in 2000 the AppleTalk was
a legacy protocol and primary networking protocol is TCP/IP. The last
Mac OS X release to support AppleTalk happened in 2009. The same year
routing equipment vendors (namely Cisco) end their support.
Thus, AppleTalk won't be supported in FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE.
IPX was a network transport protocol in Novell's NetWare network operating
system from late 80s and then 90s. The NetWare itself switched to TCP/IP
as default transport in 1998. Later, in this century the Novell Open
Enterprise Server became successor of Novell NetWare. The last release
that claimed to still support IPX was OES 2 in 2007. Routing equipment
vendors (e.g. Cisco) discontinued support for IPX in 2011.
Thus, IPX won't be supported in FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE.
- Make iface nodes removable on shutdown since FreeBSD now supports
removable interfaces
- Simplify supporting new protocols using family_enqueue(); add a
few new ones including IPv6
- Add support for configurable interface mode using new
NGM_IFACE_POINT2POINT and NGM_IFACE_BROADCAST control messages
- Remove NGM_IFACE_GET_IFADDRS control message; it just duplicates
the functionality of SIOCGIFCONF
Been in production for 3 years now. Gives Instant Frame relay to if_sr
and if_ar drivers, and PPPOE support soon. See:
ftp://ftp.whistle.com/pub/archie/netgraph/index.html
for on-line manual pages.
Reviewed by: Doug Rabson (dfr@freebsd.org)
Obtained from: Whistle CVS tree
