bin/52349: netstat -ni broken for vlan interfaces

Gleb Smirnoff glebius at cell.sick.ru
Thu Aug 21 06:10:13 PDT 2003


The following reply was made to PR bin/52349; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius at cell.sick.ru>
To: Mike Tancsa <mike at sentex.net>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/52349: netstat -ni broken for vlan interfaces
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 17:04:15 +0400

 On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 07:47:15PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote:
 M> >Description:
 M> 		I noticed that with netstat if you have more than 9 vlan interfaces, you will never see netstat -ni displayed properly as the interface name column is truncated to 6 chars.  e.g. vlan10 will get displayed as vlan1
 
 It is important that not only word "vlan" is affected by this bug. Any long
 interface name is truncated :).
 
 Usually this bug affects large inter-vlan routers with more than 10 vlan ifaces,
 as well as PPP access servers, having more than 100 tun ifaces.
 
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