From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 13 14:15:07 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B44C1106566B for ; Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:15:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists.br@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yx0-f181.google.com (mail-yx0-f181.google.com [209.85.210.181]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F7B48FC15 for ; Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:15:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxe11 with SMTP id 11so1028336yxe.3 for ; Thu, 13 Aug 2009 07:15:06 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:from:to:cc :references:subject:date:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:x-priority:x-msmail-priority:x-mailer :x-mimeole; bh=ws4v+ooOxf8nCuiJH9Hme15U1/3Ek9gI8AEa2lXjwFQ=; b=fplBvfjlFcyL9pQRUAp4dIca+fSkh1GUOq5cqnoltMuLNiTLEbnWZla5P4EcQXltn+ 4lV2LkTTWkn8no3aXGscHh2wc/QLMtdozdJFtt4eVBoj+8BRTcApXNVVB9MpFBsBeCe6 +q3vmzkQZHOP+LGLdeoYnB4ELRME2ZjBOR3jE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:from:to:cc:references:subject:date:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:x-priority:x-msmail-priority :x-mailer:x-mimeole; b=hUZAsIFxx7UmOuuFuQ587so1mCqL2gYIkv/xotSPVTp41X3nYo5xFOcZJ7kjNmXoBN QjYrFosSibE81K2tGtslCmCgB3TSFfg6EQ57dLga2LEqycUBx0ti0j6CIuuFiaq8Lahg UbBzf0QiGE1bRKKt3mHIFiNFokMdu5nH8S7OQ= Received: by 10.90.51.4 with SMTP id y4mr575292agy.83.1250172906545; Thu, 13 Aug 2009 07:15:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from adnote989 (201-42-157-19.dsl.telesp.net.br [201.42.157.19]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 38sm1404694aga.79.2009.08.13.07.15.03 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 13 Aug 2009 07:15:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: From: "Luiz Otavio O Souza" To: "Andrey V. Elsukov" , References: <4A83EEA8.5080202@delphij.net> <4A840DA1.600@yandex.ru> Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:14:56 -0300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="koi8-r"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5843 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5579 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:24:47 +0000 Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: interface description X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:15:07 -0000 > 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 > That was a long time ago... The Xin Li patch is a quite complete (manual pages updated as well) and only suffer from the 64 byte limit on interface description (and the 64 more bytes on ifnet), wich IMHO, should be easy to fix. Thank you Xin Li for bringing this =) Luiz