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Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 13:15:45 -0800 (PST)
From: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: [PATCH] switching to if_xname
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On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, Brooks Davis wrote:
>   The bigger deal is breaking
> the network interface API and ABI which in turn breaks a few user land
> programs that use libkvm ("netstat -r" for exmaple).  That's why this is
> a .0 feature.
> 
> Thanks,
> Brooks

Please check the libdnet port and possibly libpcap.

-Nate


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