Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 17:09:12 +0900 From: Kenjiro Cho <kjc@csl.sony.co.jp> To: luigi@info.iet.unipi.it Cc: julian@elischer.org, freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Proposal for ethernet, bridging, netgraph Message-ID: <20000423170912H.kjc@csl.sony.co.jp> In-Reply-To: <200004230734.JAA11091@info.iet.unipi.it> References: <3902A56B.167EB0E7@elischer.org> <200004230734.JAA11091@info.iet.unipi.it>
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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