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To: luigi@info.iet.unipi.it
Cc: julian@elischer.org, freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Proposal for ethernet, bridging, netgraph
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Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> > >   5 Add netgraph control messages to get the associated interface name
> > >     and index, so that it's possible to set promiscuous mode, multicast
> > >     addresses, etc. by:
> > >       from the kernel - getting the interface structure (using
> > >          ifindex2ifnet[if_index]), and then calling ifioctl()
> > >          (small note: ifioctl() will be made to handle p == NULL)
> > >       from userland - using the normal ioctl() mechanism
> > 
> > The ifindex is a hack that should go away (in my opinion).
> 
> I definitely agree on this !

You can't just remove if_index.
if_index is part of standard API defined in RFC2553 (Basic Socket
Interface Extention for IPv6) and RFC2292 (Advanced Socket API for
IPv6).

-Kenjiro


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