Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 23:48:39 +0400 From: "Alexander V. Chernikov" <melifaro@FreeBSD.org> To: Anuranjan Shukla <anshukla@juniper.net> Cc: "freebsd-net@freebsd.org" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>, Marcel Moolenaar <marcelm@juniper.net>, "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: IFNAMSIZ/IF_NAMESIZE change proposal Message-ID: <52376097.6080406@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <9527D72E-5871-4C5E-B2AB-A3BECA4925D4@juniper.net> References: <9527D72E-5871-4C5E-B2AB-A3BECA4925D4@juniper.net>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) ------enig2THIBILQCFMGUTJMNMUDS Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 14.09.2013 12:44, Anuranjan Shukla wrote: > Hi, > At Juniper Networks, interface name size was needed to be longer than w= hat FreeBSD has. We're trying to reduce our local changes to FreeBSD to a= llow us an easier time upgrading to newer FreeBSD releases, and support t= he modularization of the network stack we'd proposed earlier. I'm sending= this out to propose changing IFNAMSIZ from 16 to 60 (this is the size w= e use) in FreeBSD. We don't see any downside (other than increasing the i= freq structure size for one) to doing this, as allowing longer interface = names can be handy for vendors. I'd like to hear if there's a strong obje= ction to this. If not, we'd like to get this into to the FreeBSD codebase= =2E Any thoughts/objections highly appreciated. Changing this will break route socket (if_announcemsghdr). We definitely need some rtsock changes in many areas so maybe we can consider bumping rtsock version for 10.0, however it needs to be discussed (maybe at Malta?) >=20 > Thanks, > Anu > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >=20 ------enig2THIBILQCFMGUTJMNMUDS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.20 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlI3YJsACgkQwcJ4iSZ1q2lPewCgktgO8IwRZt9JDyeKpSORxy3B Pl4AoJIgtWENYy84EASGGxIH6lD/rTj3 =bbTb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------enig2THIBILQCFMGUTJMNMUDS--
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