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Date:      Wed, 28 May 2003 15:46:08 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org>
Cc:        net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: A problem with too many network interfaces
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0305281545040.37936-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030528224226.GB32325@spc.org>

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On Wed, 28 May 2003, Bruce M Simpson wrote:

> On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 11:24:52AM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
> > On Tue, 27 May 2003, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> > > net.route.iflist has been in FreeBSD since 2.0.
> > I think that it needs more documentation..
> > by which I mean it should be referenced in more places.
> > I only know it exists by "accident" (saw the commit).
> 
> I'm running -CURRENT.. and:-
> saboteur:~ % sysctl -d -a | grep iflist
> Exit 1
> 
> This worries me because I'm sure I've seen this sysctl before.
> There is net.link.generic.system.ifcount, and that's about it!

mibs can be set up to indicate whether sysctl(1) should report them.
this one is set to not be reported.. it is for "binary use only"
so to speak.. 

> 
> BMS
> 



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