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Date:      Mon, 20 Nov 2023 22:16:28 +0100
From:      Franco Fichtner <franco@opnsense.org>
To:        Kristof Provost <kp@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Mike Karels <mike@karels.net>, =?utf-8?Q?Mina_Gali=C4=87?= <freebsd@igalic.co>, Zhenlei Huang <zlei@FreeBSD.org>, Kyle Evans <kevans@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to tell if a network interface was renamed (and from what)
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> On 20. Nov 2023, at 21:56, Kristof Provost <kp@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>=20
> I=E2=80=99d look in the direction of just adding a field to struct =
ifnet with the original interface name (likely easily done in =
if_attach()), along with a new ioctl to retrieve that field.

ifconfig_get_orig_name() already exists, but apart from wlandebug
nothing is using it.

The internally used IFDATA_DRIVERNAME also appears in ifinfo
(not installed in base) and bsnmpd but that's it.

if_dname is the target and it exists in ifnet struct along with
a man page entry in inet(9).

All that is really missing is a way to print it via ifconfig command.


Cheers,
Franco=



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