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List:       freebsd-arch
Subject:    Re: IFNAMSIZ/IF_NAMESIZE change proposal
From:       "Alexander V. Chernikov" <melifaro () FreeBSD ! org>
Date:       2013-09-16 19:48:39
Message-ID: 52376097.6080406 () FreeBSD ! org
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On 14.09.2013 12:44, Anuranjan Shukla wrote:
> 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.
Changing this will break route socket (if_announcemsghdr).
We definitely need some rtsock changes in many areas so maybe we can
consider bumping rtsock version for 10.0, however it needs to be
discussed (maybe at Malta?)
> 
> Thanks,
> Anu
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