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sthaug@nethelp.no wrote this message on Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 23:15 +0100:
> > We should probably better document the interface "interface". if we are 
> > going to (as Sam suggests)
> > do some cleanups we might as well consider what other changes should be 
> > put in at the same time.
> 
> A couple of other suggestions:
> 
> - For software routers (quagga, zebra etc.) it would be very nice to
> have "link up" / "link down" notifications to the routing process(es).

already supported, either through kqueue, routing socket, or devd (I
believe)...

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