Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2013 08:44:00 +0000 From: Anuranjan Shukla <anshukla@juniper.net> To: "freebsd-net@freebsd.org" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org> Cc: Marcel Moolenaar <marcelm@juniper.net>, "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org> Subject: IFNAMSIZ/IF_NAMESIZE change proposal Message-ID: <9527D72E-5871-4C5E-B2AB-A3BECA4925D4@juniper.net>
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Hi, At Juniper Networks, interface name size was needed to be longer than what FreeBSD has. We're trying to reduce our local changes to FreeBSD to allow us an easier time upgrading to newer FreeBSD releases, and support the modularization of the network stack we'd proposed earlier. I'm sending this out to propose changing IFNAMSIZ from 16 to 60 (this is the size we use) in FreeBSD. We don't see any downside (other than increasing the ifreq structure size for one) to doing this, as allowing longer interface names can be handy for vendors. I'd like to hear if there's a strong objection to this. If not, we'd like to get this into to the FreeBSD codebase. Any thoughts/objections highly appreciated. Thanks, Anu
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