Hi,
At Juniper Networks, interface name size was needed to be longer than what 
FreeBSD has. We're trying to reduce our local changes to FreeBSD to allow us an 
easier time upgrading to newer FreeBSD releases, and support the modularization 
of the network stack we'd proposed earlier. I'm sending this  out to propose 
changing IFNAMSIZ from 16 to 60 (this is the size we use) in FreeBSD. We don't 
see any downside (other than increasing the ifreq structure size for one) to 
doing this, as allowing longer interface names can be handy for vendors. I'd 
like to hear if there's a strong objection to this. If not, we'd like to get 
this into to the FreeBSD codebase. Any thoughts/objections highly appreciated.

Thanks,
Anu
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