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Configuration items when not specified #21

Closed banburybill closed 6 years ago

banburybill commented 7 years ago

On Thursday, 23 February 2017 13:58:18 GMT Bob Harold wrote:

Is it possible to have a case where the software does not know if promiscuous mode was enabled ? If so, we should allow for an "unspecified" or "unknown" code for "promisc"

Perhaps a pcap to C-DNS converter would have this issue, if the pcap format does not include "promisc" info?

Thanks, that's a good point. Yes, it is certainly possible to not have a known promiscuous mode, and also of course in the case of a pcap conversion the interface is not known.

We're discussing the best approach to handling this; whether to have specified 'unspecified' values, or specify that, since all config items in C-DNS are optional, values should only be present if definitely known.

banburybill commented 6 years ago

All are now optional. Added reinforcing sentence.