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Date:      Thu, 20 May 1999 08:38:22 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
To:        pb@FreeBSD.org (Pierre Beyssac)
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/net if_var.h
Message-ID:  <199905201538.IAA02589@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
In-Reply-To: <199905192300.QAA45814@freefall.freebsd.org> from Pierre Beyssac at "May 19, 1999 04:00:20 pm"

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> pb          1999/05/19 16:00:20 PDT
> 
>   Modified files:        (Branch: RELENG_3)
>     sys/net              if_var.h 
>   Log:
>   MFC: change reference count in struct ifaddr to a u_int, to be able
>   to handle more than 2^16 routes to the same interface.
>   
>   Fix suggested by Andrew Bangs <andrewb@demon.net> in PR kern/10570.
>   Tested by Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com> under -stable.
>   
>   PR:		kern/10570
>   
>   Revision  Changes    Path
>   1.10.2.1  +2 -2      src/sys/net/if_var.h

HEADSUP -- This will require compilation of many userland applications
that have to deal with networking code due to the change in the size
of the struct.  In particular anything that prints route metrics or
tries to deal with them will barf :-(.

Though I like this change, the interface change is going to cause me
and probably many other users great pains on all the boxes we just
upgraded to 3.2-STABLE or 3.2-RELEASE.

I would like to ask this be backed out until 3.3-RELEASE.

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