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From: Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org>
To: Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr>
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On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 11:34:57PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote:
> I use it in this code:
>=20
> /* get interface name by index */
=2E..

Please consider using if_nameindex() or if_nametoindex(), which will retrie=
ve
the getifaddrs() list for you and considerably simplify the code fragment
you've provided.

These are specified by RFC 2553 and are used in many places within the XORP
open source router.

Regards,
BMS

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