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On 10/15/2013 11:15, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> Well, up until now the interactions have all been via the ioctl API or the
> ifconfig command. Both are cumbersome.
>
> There's a decent amount of library code in ifconfig for wifi and regulatory
> related stuff. It could be broken out into a public library..
>
> -adrian
>

Yea, our PC-BSD network utils are using a mixture of C ioctl and
"ifconfig" parsing, +1 for a public library API at some point ;)

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Kris Moore
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