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Ruslan Ermilov wrote:

>As an aside, I've started working on the ``[-]polling'' option for
>ifconfig(8) that, when done, will allow changing the polling status
>of individual interfaces in run-time, e.g., the following command
>will disable polling on nge0:
>
>	ifconfig nge0 -polling
>  
>
Just a thought, what if iface is not hardware? Netgraph for example? :-)

rik