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Equinix is shutting down its operations with us on April 30, 2025. They have graciously supported us for almost 5 years, but all good things come to an end.
Given the time frame, it's going to be hard to make a smooth transition of the cluster to somewhere else (TBD). Please expect in the next months some hiccups in the service and probably at least a full week of downtime to transfer gitlab to a different place.
On macOS netlink seems not to be supported at all. I do not know if any replacement exists, but if not, perhaps it should be just excluded from the build there.
@barracuda156 Yeah, MacOS uses a completely different mechanism; the mm-port-net.c code that uses netlink wouldn't get compiled for Mac OS and instead would use ifconfig to set the MTU and the net port up.
For FreeBSD, I guess we'd have to use #ifdef __FreeBSD__ or something to select the right include path?
and instead would use ifconfig to set the MTU and the net port up.
Does the fallback already exist? I cannot write this from my end, though I can exclude whatever is using netlink, of course.
For FreeBSD, I guess we'd have to use #ifdef __FreeBSD__ or something to select the right include path?
I guess so. In practice I have only dealt with building stuff on macOS, so I do not know whether FreeBSD supports whatever needed here, but with the headers it should be straightforward. (Worth considering OpenBSD and NetBSD as well, when this is gonna be addressed.)
I don't think we need any of this really. Netlink is only used to ifup and set MTU, and these 2 steps are exclusively required during multiplexing setup, and multiplexing setup requires specific support from the kernel drivers in the Linux kernel.
I think the goal should be to allow building MM without any kind of multiplexing support, and that will get all those usecases removed from the build automatically.