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Date:      Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:57:05 +0400
From:      "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher@yandex.ru>
To:        d@delphij.net
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: RFC: interface description
Message-ID:  <4A840DA1.600@yandex.ru>
In-Reply-To: <4A83EEA8.5080202@delphij.net>
References:  <4A83EEA8.5080202@delphij.net>

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Xin LI wrote:
> 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

Something similar was rejected at least two times :)
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/83622
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/110720

-- 
WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov



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