Re: CVS commit: src/sys/net

[David Young <dyoung%pobox.com@localhost>]

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 08:16:05PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 12:48:13PM -0500, David Young wrote:
> > > does it work for xvif interfaces?  cf. PR/35074
> > 
> > Probably not.  Thanks for bringing this case to my attention.
> > 
> > I could change illegal characters in if_xname to dashes or to
> > underscores in the sysctl node name.  Or I could name the node after the
> > if_index instead of after the if_xname, if the if_xname contains illegal
> > characters.  I guess that I like the latter idea better.  What do you
> > think?
> 
> How do you match if_xname to if_index if you use if_index for
> the sysctl node name ?

I was thinking about that, too.  I could add a 'name' node, too:

net.interfaces.3.name=xvif0.0
net.interfaces.3.sndq.maxlen=...

Dave

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