On Sep 14, 2013, at 2:44 AM, Anuranjan Shukla wrote: > 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.
56 or 64 would be better for alignment, wouldn't it? Warner _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
