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Subject: Re: RFC: interface description
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Andrey V. Elsukov wrote:
> 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 :)


not rejected..

suffered from lack of enthusiasm maybe.

> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/83622
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/110720
>