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From: "Vasily V. Grechishnikov" <bazilio@economic.acnit.ac.ru>
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Subject: How to determine size of buffer for the SIOCGIFCONF request ?
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			Hi !
	How to determine size of buffer for ioctl SIOCGIFCONF request?
May be simply guess that buffer size if 1K , 2K or so more ? Why 
FreeBSD did not support ioctl SIOCGIFANUM request ?

Thanks , Vasily .

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