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Date:      Mon, 08 Aug 2005 23:31:44 +0200
From:      Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org>
To:        Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: running out of mbufs?
Message-ID:  <42F7CF40.FC36E5D3@freebsd.org>
References:  <1123040973.95445.TMDA@seddon.ca> <20050802225518.G53516@odysseus.silby.com> <1123055951.16791.TMDA@seddon.ca> <42F734D0.6F7387E0@freebsd.org> <20050808125712.GI45385@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> <42F75C34.48F433E6@freebsd.org> <20050808154614.GJ45385@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org>

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Jeremie Le Hen wrote:
> 
> Hi Andre,
> 
> > > By "interface groups", do you mean the same ones as OpenBSD ?
> >
> > I don't know.  What is the definition of an OpenBSD interface group?
> 
> >From ifconfig(8) manual page :
> %%%
>     group group-name
>                     Assign the interface to a ``group''.  Any interface can
>                     be in multiple groups.
> 
>                     Cloned interfaces are members of their interface family
>                     group by default.  For example, a PPP interface such as
>                     ppp0 is a member of the PPP interface family group, ppp.
>                     The interface(s) the default route(s) point to are mem-
>                     bers of the egress interface group.
> %%%
> 
> This article [1] explains better what interface groups are, see the
> "Interface group" section (according to w3m: line 182/422 (43%))
> 
> [1] http://kerneltrap.org/node/5190

Yea, I guess we're going to support that.  If just to make the pf porters
happy.  For routing tables work and such I'd rather compare a pointer or
int than a string but I'm sure we manage to find a clean way to get both.

-- 
Andre



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