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Subject: Re: interface renaming of an running interface
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On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 11:01:08AM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 11:38:45AM +0200, Harti Brandt wrote:
> > > Additionally I would like to create new sysctls:
> > >
> > > net.link.generic.ifdata.<ifindex>.dname
> > > net.link.generic.ifdata.<ifindex>.dunit
> > >
> > > to access the driver's name of an interface.
>
> Why not simply net.link.generic.if.<ifindex>... ?

Because it fits into the already existing

net.link.generic.ifdata.<ifindex>.general
net.link.generic.ifdata.<ifindex>.linkspecific

harti