On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 03:43:30PM -0700, Bill Fumerola wrote: > On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 12:28:23PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: > > It's completely un-needed except that some standards want to access > > interfaces by index for statitics purposes. > > they're "un-needed" in much the same way that statically assigning disk > numbers is "un-needed". sure, the disks don't light on fire without it, > but some consistancy and persistance does make things nice.
My very own AODV routing daemon uses the if_index to track interfaces going away and coming back... BMS
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