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<<On Sun, 23 Apr 2000 00:25:31 -0700, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> said:

> The ifindex is a hack that should go away (in my opinion).

ifindex is required by standards.  It can't go away, regardless of
your opinion.

-GAWollman



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