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From: Don Bowman <don@sandvine.com>
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Subject: RE: A problem with too many network interfaces
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> From: Garrett Wollman [mailto:wollman@lcs.mit.edu]
> <<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


$ uname -sr
FreeBSD 4.6-RC

$ sysctl net.route
sysctl: unknown oid 'net.route'

I think since the ports work against other than current branch
it would be difficult to support?

--don