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Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 15:30:46 +0700
From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@nsu.ru>
To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
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Subject: Re: interface renaming of an running interface
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On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 11:01:08AM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 11:38:45AM +0200, Harti Brandt wrote:
> > Additionally I would like to create new sysctls:
> > 
> > net.link.generic.ifdata.<ifindex>.dname
> > net.link.generic.ifdata.<ifindex>.dunit
> > 
> > to access the driver's name of an interface.

Why not simply net.link.generic.if.<ifindex>... ?

./danfe