From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 17 22: 6:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from web5301.mail.yahoo.com (web5301.mail.yahoo.com [216.115.106.110]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2D40437B42C for ; Thu, 17 May 2001 22:06:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vishubp@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20010518050655.12153.qmail@web5301.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [203.200.20.3] by web5301.mail.yahoo.com; Fri, 18 May 2001 06:06:55 BST Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 06:06:55 +0100 (BST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?vishwanath=20pargaonkar?= Subject: ifindex To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, why is ifindex used for an interface.i know it is said itz for unique identification of device.Can we not do that using interfac name ?what is significance of ifindex for an interface. itz just a number associated with an interface. TIA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message