Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 23:29:39 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> To: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@cell.sick.ru>, julian@freebsd.org, archie@freebsd.org, freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/63864: [patch] new control message for ng_iface(4) - getifindex Message-ID: <20040308212939.GB30394@ip.net.ua> In-Reply-To: <20040308102033.GA66247@cell.sick.ru> References: <200403072302.i27N2StR008804@freefall.freebsd.org> <20040308102033.GA66247@cell.sick.ru>
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--IrhDeMKUP4DT/M7F Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 01:20:33PM +0300, Gleb Smirnoff wrote: > On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 03:02:28PM -0800, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > R> Synopsis: [patch] new control message for ng_iface(4) - getifindex > R>=20 > R> State-Changed-From-To: open->closed > R> State-Changed-By: ru > R> State-Changed-When: Sun Mar 7 15:01:03 PST 2004 > R> State-Changed-Why:=20 > R> Committed with tiny modifications, thanks! >=20 > I have one more idea. Currently we have got 3 interface nodes: ng_ether= , ng_iface, > ng_eiface. 2 of them already support "getifindex" message, imagine I (or = someone else) send > you patch tomorrow, which adds support to ng_eiface. OK, now all three su= pport. May be > in future some new interface nodes will be developed. >=20 > Imagine the following: you have node, which is connected to some generic > interface (it doesn't know which node type exactly). This node wants to > determine interface index of attached interfac. It would send 3 "getifind= ex" messages with 3 > different cookies. Two of messages will always fail, and one return. This= is not nice. >=20 > What I suggest: create a new semi-generic cookie NGM_GENERICIFACE_COOKIE,= which will be > supported by all interface nodes. Put NGM_GENERICIFACE_GETIFINDEX message= under > NGM_GENERICIFACE_COOKIE case brackets. If you like this idea, please repl= y me. And I'll send > patches. >=20 How do you think "ngctl msg ng0: getifindex" works? ;) Cheers, --=20 Ruslan Ermilov FreeBSD committer ru@FreeBSD.org --IrhDeMKUP4DT/M7F Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFATOXDUkv4P6juNwoRAjcsAJ9iG7fvCw5klJ7niMNWHiy74YxEfwCfS/hg Z0+iqydq1wo52dqKXojhq4A= =7B7V -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --IrhDeMKUP4DT/M7F--
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