Interface removal

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Tue May 29 20:06:56 UTC 2018


Hal Murray via devel <devel at ntpsec.org>:
> 
> There are command line options as well as ntp.conf:
>    -I Str interface      Listen on an interface name or address
>                                 - may appear multiple times
>    -L no  novirtualips   Do not listen to virtual interfaces

-I would definitely dropped. I don't comprehend "virtual interfaces".
so I don't know if that should survive.

I'm taking your remarks as endorsing dropping the whole interface feature.
That has weight with me. I'd like to hear from Matt and Daniel as well.
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