Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 09:07:34 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Kenjiro Cho <kjc@csl.sony.co.jp> Cc: luigi@info.iet.unipi.it, freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Proposal for ethernet, bridging, netgraph Message-ID: <39031FC6.59E2B600@elischer.org> References: <3902A56B.167EB0E7@elischer.org> <200004230734.JAA11091@info.iet.unipi.it> <20000423170912H.kjc@csl.sony.co.jp>
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Kenjiro Cho wrote:
>
> Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> > > > 5 Add netgraph control messages to get the associated interface name
> > > > and index, so that it's possible to set promiscuous mode, multicast
> > > > addresses, etc. by:
> > > > from the kernel - getting the interface structure (using
> > > > ifindex2ifnet[if_index]), and then calling ifioctl()
> > > > (small note: ifioctl() will be made to handle p == NULL)
> > > > from userland - using the normal ioctl() mechanism
> > >
> > > The ifindex is a hack that should go away (in my opinion).
> >
> > I definitely agree on this !
>
> You can't just remove if_index.
> if_index is part of standard API defined in RFC2553 (Basic Socket
> Interface Extention for IPv6) and RFC2292 (Advanced Socket API for
> IPv6).
yeah.. having not really looked at those RFCs I didn't realise this.
What a pitty.
it's so unsuitable for some environments.
>
> -Kenjiro
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