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Subject: Re: A problem with too many network interfaces
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<<On Mon, 26 May 2003 14:04:19 -0700 (PDT), =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mikko_Ty=F6l=E4j=E4rvi?= <mbsd@pacbell.net> said:

> A proper BSD port could use something like the trick in Stevens[1] and
> keep retrying the call with a larger bufer until the length of the
> result is the same as in the previous call.

Actually, a proper BSD port would use the net.route.iflist sysctl
instead.

-GAWollman