Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 14:59:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> Cc: Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposal: adopt SIOCGLIFNUM interface for enumerating iflist. Message-ID: <200209162159.g8GLxfe88208@arch20m.dellroad.org> In-Reply-To: <200209161712.g8GHCWak023802@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> "from Garrett Wollman at Sep 16, 2002 01:12:32 pm"
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Garrett Wollman writes: > > At this time these applications have to play 'elastic buffer' games with the > > SIOCGIFCONF ioctl in order to get all of the relevant information. By allowing > > userland applications to determine the size of this buffer at runtime, we > > eliminate the need for repeated calls to ifioctl(). > > We have already done so: sysctl net.route.iflist. FYI, libpdel (ports:devel/libpdel) has code that shows how to do this and makes it easier. Install the port and type 'man if_get_list' for details. -Archie __________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Packet Design * http://www.packetdesign.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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