Re: netstat routing table (verbose) output

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <5358FD54.1060500%netbsd.org@localhost>,
Frank Kardel  <kardel%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>once upon a time (NetBSD 6.x and before) the command
>netstat -nvrf inet
>delivered:
>
>Routing tables
>
>Internet:
>Destination        Gateway            Flags    Refs      Use    Mtu 
>Interface
>default            10.0.2.1           UGS        15 35833864      -  nfe0
>         expire            0   recvpipe          0   sendpipe          0
>         ssthresh          0   rtt               0   rttvar            0
>         hopcount          0
>10.0.2/24          link#1             UC         14        0      -  nfe0
>         expire   1390815881   recvpipe          0   sendpipe          0
>         ssthresh          0   rtt               0   rttvar            0
>         hopcount          0
>10.0.2.1           00:00:24:c9:2c:84  UHLc        1  2690346      -  nfe0
>         expire   1398341586   recvpipe          0   sendpipe          0
>         ssthresh          0   rtt          109375   rttvar        93750
>         hopcount          0
>
>Nowadays (-current) I only see the same output as without the -v option.
>
>Is this deliberate? Is this a regression?
>
>The -v option was useful to check things like hopcount and diagnose 
>routing trouble.
>The route show <dest> command still outputs the hopcount and other 
>information, but not the entire routing table in extended format.
>
>Is there a plan to re-instate the functionality?

I think that died when Elad? tried to cleanup netstat not to use kmem.
It should be fixed properly by adding more stuff to sysctl if we bring
the functionality back.

christos