Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:40:02 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher@yandex.ru> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, d@delphij.net Subject: Re: RFC: interface description Message-ID: <4A844FF2.9000307@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <4A840DA1.600@yandex.ru> References: <4A83EEA8.5080202@delphij.net> <4A840DA1.600@yandex.ru>
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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 >
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