ifnet struct interface type

Josh Carroll josh.carroll at psualum.com
Fri Nov 24 15:57:32 PST 2006


> I was planning on using this value to
> distinguish what sort of connection each interface is using but obviously
> with both returning IFT_ETHER this is not possible, any help is much
> appreciated!

It would probably be better to query the interface's media setting
instead, since you may have a gigabit card that autonegotiated to
100baseTx-FD or similar.

You could probably take a look at /usr/src/sbin/ifconfig/ifmedia.c for
details on how to query what the card's current media setting is.

Regards,
Josh


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