Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:34:24 +0200 (CEST) From: sthaug@nethelp.no To: d@delphij.net, delphij@delphij.net Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: interface description Message-ID: <20090813.133424.41729466.sthaug@nethelp.no> In-Reply-To: <4A83EEA8.5080202@delphij.net> References: <4A83EEA8.5080202@delphij.net>
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> While playing with some OpenBSD installation I found that they have an > interesting feature - adding description to a NIC. This is useful for > system administrators to "tag" the interface, also, the ladvd program > has a feature to use the SIOCSIFDESCR ioctl to document the remote CDP > peer like: Yes please! This is an "obvious" feature to those of us who are router geeks, and I've been wishing for this to show up in FreeBSD for years. Now if I could have "sticky" static routes also I would be even happier (as in: Next hop disappears -> route disappears. Next hop available again -> route shows up in routing table again). Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no
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