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From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
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To: Kenjiro Cho <kjc@csl.sony.co.jp>
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Subject: Re: Proposal for ethernet, bridging, netgraph
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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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