Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 15:10:11 +0100 From: Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org> To: Bill Fumerola <billf@FreeBSD.org> Cc: net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what is the story on if_index allocation ? Message-ID: <20040420141011.GB18177@empiric.dek.spc.org> In-Reply-To: <20040419224330.GN17862@elvis.mu.org> References: <20040419110912.A71274@xorpc.icir.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0404191227150.64627-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> <20040419224330.GN17862@elvis.mu.org>
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--MGYHOYXEY6WxJCY8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 03:43:30PM -0700, Bill Fumerola wrote: > On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 12:28:23PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: > > It's completely un-needed except that some standards want to access=20 > > interfaces by index for statitics purposes. >=20 > they're "un-needed" in much the same way that statically assigning disk > numbers is "un-needed". sure, the disks don't light on fire without it, > but some consistancy and persistance does make things nice. My very own AODV routing daemon uses the if_index to track interfaces going away and coming back... BMS --MGYHOYXEY6WxJCY8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: '' iD8DBQFAhS9DueUpAYYNtTsRAjDOAJ0UW3jyQKNR9pOJgUGkJsnp7E/YmACfaoNJ DbKir+ueeMooM3fjpYK/6cM= =/4lQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --MGYHOYXEY6WxJCY8--
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