svn commit: r199201 - in head: contrib/libpcap sbin/ifconfig share/man/man4 sys/kern sys/net sys/sys

[Philip Paeps]

On 2009-11-11 21:30:58 (+0000), Xin LI <delphij at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> Log:
>   Add interface description capability as inspired by OpenBSD.

In addition to the comments already made, I'd also like to note that it would
make a lot of sense to announce changes in interface descriptions to the
routing socket.  That way, SNMP or other userspace consumers (a daemon sending
CDP announcements, for instance - though arguably the kernel could send those)
can be notified of changes rather than having to poll for them.

 - Philip

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