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<<On Tue, 27 May 2003 13:44:35 -0400, Don Bowman <don@sandvine.com> said:

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

> $ uname -sr
> FreeBSD 4.6-RC

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

Irrelevant.  sysctl(8) is not equipped to handle the contents of this
MIB branch.

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

net.route.iflist has been in FreeBSD since 2.0.

-GAWollman