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Date:      Tue, 20 Apr 2004 23:58:58 -0700
From:      Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org>
To:        Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
Cc:        net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: what is the story on if_index allocation ?
Message-ID:  <20040420235858.B47612@xorpc.icir.org>
In-Reply-To: <40861A71.1020502@he.iki.fi>; from pete@he.iki.fi on Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 09:53:37AM %2B0300
References:  <20040419110912.A71274@xorpc.icir.org> <408613F7.1090806@he.iki.fi> <20040420233818.B43347@xorpc.icir.org> <40861A71.1020502@he.iki.fi>

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On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 09:53:37AM +0300, Petri Helenius wrote:
...
> Relevant quote from the RFC:

a very appropriate one indeed, which seems to substantiate my point.

>    interfaces that might be added dynamically.  The exact meaning of a
>    "different" interface is hard to define, and there will be gray
>    areas.  Any firm definition in this document would likely turn out to
>    be inadequate.  Instead, implementors must choose what it means in
>    their particular situation, subject to the following rules:

so if there are gray areas in defining 'different' the same applies
to defining 'same' :)

cheers
luigi



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