Re: what is the story on if_index allocation ?

From: Bruce M Simpson (bms_at_spc.org)
Date: 04/20/04

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To: Bill Fumerola <billf@FreeBSD.org>

    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
    > > interfaces by index for statitics purposes.
    >
    > 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

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