From owner-cvs-all Sun Jun 20 0: 4:45 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39F3F14E95; Sun, 20 Jun 1999 00:04:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id JAA12336; Sun, 20 Jun 1999 09:03:48 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Andreas Klemm Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/ifconfig ifconfig.c src/sys/net if.c if.h if_tun.c if_tunvar.h src/sys/sys sockio.h In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 20 Jun 1999 08:44:26 +0200." <19990620084425.A98773@titan.klemm.gtn.com> Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 09:03:48 +0200 Message-ID: <12334.929862228@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk In message <19990620084425.A98773@titan.klemm.gtn.com>, Andreas Klemm writes: >On Sat, Jun 19, 1999 at 11:42:33AM -0700, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> Future uses could be (volounteers welcome!): >> Have ppp/slip interfaces tell which tty they use. >> Make sync interfaces return their media state: red/yellow/blue >> alarm, timeslot assignment and so on. >> Make ethernets warn about missing heartbeats and/or cables > >It would be fine, if ifconfig could display some more data about >the link. Like ciscos do for example. > >netstat -s is too much and -i too less informative. > It was not my intent that this should be used for statistics in any form, but rather for the "unstructured information" which would take hundred of weird ioctls to access. A similar ascii based interface to set configuration is in the pipe line. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message