Request: show interfaces

[joe mcguckin]

It’s always bugged me that Unix doesn’t show as much information as a typical router 
does about ethernet interface statistics.

What we really need is the equivalent of Cisco ’show interface’

This shows the bit rate, packet rate, count, all the various type of errors, etc.

Cisco allows a description field to be set for each interface, and that shows up also in a ’show int’ output.

I think these would be great features, considering how ofter FreeBSD is used for routers and firewalls.

Thanks,

Joe


Joe McGuckin
ViaNet Communications

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