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authordelphij <delphij@FreeBSD.org>2009-11-11 21:30:58 +0000
committerdelphij <delphij@FreeBSD.org>2009-11-11 21:30:58 +0000
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Add interface description capability as inspired by OpenBSD.
MFC after: 3 months
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@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
.\" @(#)netintro.4 8.2 (Berkeley) 11/30/93
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd June 18, 2004
+.Dd November 11, 2009
.Dt NETINTRO 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -277,6 +277,25 @@ and
fields of the
.Vt ifreq
structure, respectively.
+.It Dv SIOCGIFDESCR
+Get the interface description, returned in the
+.Va buffer
+field of
+.Va ifru_buffer
+struct.
+The user supplied buffer length should defined in the
+.Va length
+field of
+.Va ifru_buffer
+struct passed in as parameter.
+.It Dv SIOCSIFDESCR
+Set the interface description to the value of the
+.Va buffer
+field of
+.Va ifru_buffer
+struct, with
+.Va length
+field specifying its length.
.It Dv SIOCSIFFLAGS
Set interface flags field.
If the interface is marked down,
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