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 u= s an easier time upgrading to newer FreeBSD releases, and support the modul= arization 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 Fr= eeBSD. 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 han= dy 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/objec= tions highly appreciated. Thanks, Anu=
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