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Brooks Davis wrote:

>=20
> Not today, since none of them get used in the paths that do this.  In
> general the network code doesn't care what you call an interface.  Ther=
e
> are a few corners where it does, but nothing that isn't specific to
> a certain set of drivers.  Additionally, it is necessary to not have
> members called if_name and if_unit if we have if_xname as the primary
> driver name.  It's also worth noting that one of the things I want to d=
o
> is break the driver+unit mapping for certain types of pseudo devices.
> Specifically vlan devices should be allocatable by creating an interfac=
e
> with a name like fxp0.100 so while you could synthesize a unit number,
> it wouldn't have any useful meaning.

I wonder how that works for vlans over bridges...

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