From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 8 13:29:47 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1728C16A4CE; Mon, 8 Mar 2004 13:29:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from tigra.ip.net.ua (tigra.ip.net.ua [82.193.96.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B87043D2F; Mon, 8 Mar 2004 13:29:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ru@ip.net.ua) Received: from heffalump.office.ipnet (heffalump.ip.net.ua [82.193.96.213]) by tigra.ip.net.ua (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i28LX81t035811 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 8 Mar 2004 23:33:10 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from ru@ip.net.ua) Received: (from ru@localhost) by heffalump.office.ipnet (8.12.11/8.12.11) id i28LTdLO030451; Mon, 8 Mar 2004 23:29:39 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from ru) Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 23:29:39 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Gleb Smirnoff , julian@freebsd.org, archie@freebsd.org, freebsd-net@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040308212939.GB30394@ip.net.ua> References: <200403072302.i27N2StR008804@freefall.freebsd.org> <20040308102033.GA66247@cell.sick.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="IrhDeMKUP4DT/M7F" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040308102033.GA66247@cell.sick.ru> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) Subject: Re: kern/63864: [patch] new control message for ng_iface(4) - getifindex X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 21:29:47 -0000 --IrhDeMKUP4DT/M7F Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 01:20:33PM +0300, Gleb Smirnoff wrote: > On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 03:02:28PM -0800, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > R> Synopsis: [patch] new control message for ng_iface(4) - getifindex > R>=20 > R> State-Changed-From-To: open->closed > R> State-Changed-By: ru > R> State-Changed-When: Sun Mar 7 15:01:03 PST 2004 > R> State-Changed-Why:=20 > R> Committed with tiny modifications, thanks! >=20 > I have one more idea. Currently we have got 3 interface nodes: ng_ether= , ng_iface, > ng_eiface. 2 of them already support "getifindex" message, imagine I (or = someone else) send > you patch tomorrow, which adds support to ng_eiface. OK, now all three su= pport. May be > in future some new interface nodes will be developed. >=20 > Imagine the following: you have node, which is connected to some generic > interface (it doesn't know which node type exactly). This node wants to > determine interface index of attached interfac. It would send 3 "getifind= ex" messages with 3 > different cookies. Two of messages will always fail, and one return. This= is not nice. >=20 > What I suggest: create a new semi-generic cookie NGM_GENERICIFACE_COOKIE,= which will be > supported by all interface nodes. Put NGM_GENERICIFACE_GETIFINDEX message= under > NGM_GENERICIFACE_COOKIE case brackets. If you like this idea, please repl= y me. And I'll send > patches. >=20 How do you think "ngctl msg ng0: getifindex" works? ;) Cheers, --=20 Ruslan Ermilov FreeBSD committer ru@FreeBSD.org --IrhDeMKUP4DT/M7F Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFATOXDUkv4P6juNwoRAjcsAJ9iG7fvCw5klJ7niMNWHiy74YxEfwCfS/hg Z0+iqydq1wo52dqKXojhq4A= =7B7V -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --IrhDeMKUP4DT/M7F--