Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 10:49:17 +0000 From: Joe Holden <lists@rewt.org.uk> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Showing CDP info in ifconfig? Message-ID: <52D5162D.5020609@rewt.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <52D50E53.7000405@smartspb.net> References: <52D50065.8060907@fsn.hu> <D9AB077C-F6DC-4A00-89E7-FEA8CFFF918F@lists.zabbadoz.net> <52D50E53.7000405@smartspb.net>
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On 14/01/2014 10:15, Dennis Yusupoff wrote: > May be implement that functionality in ndp utility, as far it named > after Neighbor Discovery Protocol? > > 14.01.2014 13:31, Bjoern A. Zeeb пишет: >> No. Neither would lldp or other protocols. That’s what a higher level >> management user interface is for. I’d be happy to finally see someone >> do this in an abstracted way so it could be a cli, a Web interface, or >> some xml-rpc thingy or whatever is the standard of the day. ifconfig >> is not the place, especially since it would have to query a daemon >> running somewhere else anyway. Otherwise we’ll end up with ndp, ospf, >> isis, bgp, ipsec, and the apache, varnish, and squid status there as >> well. Just my 2cts. > That is an even worse place to implement it, since NDP is essentially IPv6 ARP. This should probably be in userland, GPL utilities already exist but there are/were some performance hits (not sure if the BPF writers patches fixed anything, or if they got merged in the end).help
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