Re: Patch to implement SIOCGIFINDEX

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

In article <5174AC05.3030504%chocot.jp@localhost>,
Masaru OKI  <masaru+oki%chocot.jp@localhost> wrote:
>FreeBSD already has SIOCGIFINDEX, and if_nametoindex(3) uses it.
>it is useful, i think.
>
>(2013/04/02 8:13), Ty Sarna wrote:
>> The following short patch implements SIOCGIFINDEX as found on Linux
>> (and maybe elsewhere), which translates an interface name to its index.

Someone else asked for it too, so I guess it is kind of popular...

christos