Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Wed, 23 Jan 2002 18:28:47 -0500 (EST)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: interface multicast address list
Message-ID:  <200201232328.g0NNSlO74758@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20020123145003.C66702@sunbay.com>
References:  <20020123105315.Q86919-100000@beagle.fokus.gmd.de> <20020123145003.C66702@sunbay.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help

>> is there any way to get at the if_multiaddrs list from user space (except
>> for digging through the kernel with kvm).
>> 
> I'm affraid not.

There should be.

> I think the right way would be to add this to net/rtsock.c:sysctl_iflist()
> to be accessible through the NET_RT_IFLIST sysctl.  BTW, I've just fixed
> the sysctl(3) manpage to document the sixth level of this sysctl.

I agree.  I'd suggest it would be simpler for most applications to
create a new option, NET_RT_IFMLIST.  The RTM_NEWMADDR message type
already exists, IIRC.

-GAWollman


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200201232328.g0NNSlO74758>