RFC: interface description

Andrey V. Elsukov bu7cher at yandex.ru
Thu Aug 13 13:13:34 UTC 2009


Xin LI wrote:
> While playing with some OpenBSD installation I found that they have an
> interesting feature - adding description to a NIC.  This is useful for
> system administrators to "tag" the interface, also, the ladvd program
> has a feature to use the SIOCSIFDESCR ioctl to document the remote CDP

Something similar was rejected at least two times :)
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/83622
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/110720

-- 
WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov


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