From owner-freebsd-net Mon Sep 16 11:22:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33F9337B400 for ; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 11:22:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-blue.research.att.com (mail-blue.research.att.com [135.207.30.102]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B50643E6E for ; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 11:22:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fenner@research.att.com) Received: from alliance.research.att.com (alliance.research.att.com [135.207.26.26]) by mail-blue.research.att.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 123044CED7 for ; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 14:22:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from windsor.research.att.com (windsor.research.att.com [135.207.26.46]) by alliance.research.att.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA28367 for ; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 14:22:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Fenner Received: (from fenner@localhost) by windsor.research.att.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.5) id LAA21679; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 11:22:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200209161822.LAA21679@windsor.research.att.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposal: adopt SIOCGLIFNUM interface for enumerating iflist. References: <20020916164206.GN28076@spc.org> <200209161712.g8GHCWak023802@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 11:22:41 -0700 Versions: dmail (solaris) 2.5a/makemail 2.9d Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I would be amenable to SIOCGIFNUM (note: not the L version), as a simple extension to the "legacy" SIOCGIFCONF interface, and adding further functionality such as the filtering that Solaris implements with the SIOCGLIF* ioctls using sysctl. Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message