Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 11:09:56 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Harti Brandt <brandt@fokus.gmd.de> Cc: net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: interface creation notification Message-ID: <20020118110956.C1997@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <20020117185451.V97177-100000@beagle.fokus.gmd.de> References: <20020117185451.V97177-100000@beagle.fokus.gmd.de>
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On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 06:58:26PM +0100, Harti Brandt wrote: > > Hi, > > how is a daemon supposed to get informed that a network interface has been > created? I had hoped, that an RTM_IFINFO message would be created on the > routing socket, but this is not the case. If an interface is destroyed, > the routing socket gets a message for whatever reason. Wouldn't it be > simple to just create an RTM_IFINFO message? > It does get created (you can check with the ``route -vn monitor'' command), but please see PR kern/33747 for one small pitfall. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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