bin/161986: Interface auto-width in "netstat -rn"
Dennis Yusupoff
dyr at smartspb.net
Tue Oct 25 09:10:02 UTC 2011
>Number: 161986
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: Interface auto-width in "netstat -rn"
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
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>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Tue Oct 25 09:10:01 UTC 2011
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Dennis Yusupoff
>Release: 7,8 and 9
>Organization:
SmartTelecom
>Environment:
No matter :)
>Description:
Currently there are two version of "netstat -rn" - "wide" and "usual". Wide is turning on by option "-W" and show additional information about routes (only for IPv4 family, as I understand route.c) - MTU and the full interface name(limited, however, by 8 symbols). In "usual" mode Netif limited by 6 symbols, which definitly isn't enough for VLAN interfaces:
===
netstat -rn| head -n6
Routing tables
Internet:
Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Netif Expire
default 217.119.16.33 UGS 0 2147187618 em0
10.1.0.0/16 10.78.77.9 UG1 0 0 vlan30
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===
netstat -Wrn| head -n6
Routing tables
Internet:
Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Mtu Netif Expire
default 217.119.16.33 UGS 0 2147115775 1500 em0
10.1.0.0/16 10.78.77.9 UG1 0 0 1500 vlan3050
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I think, that truncating Netif is absolutely incorrect and easily confusing most FreeBSD users.
So I propose:
1. Limit wid_if by getting width of longest netif name (i.e. automatically, on-the-fly)
2.1 Show full netif by default or:
2.2 Add special "truncated" symbol at the end of Netif, for example ">", like that:
===
Routing tables
Internet:
Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Netif Expire
default 217.119.16.33 UGS 0 2147187618 em0
10.1.0.0/16 10.78.77.9 UG1 0 0 vlan30>
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>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
Don't know C as should, but it looks like it might be easily patch route.c
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