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	George Neville-Neil <gnn@hudson-trading.com>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: svn commit: r196797 - in head: sys/net sys/netinet
	usr.bin/netstat
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On Fri, 4 Sep 2009, George Neville-Neil wrote:

Hi,

> On Sep 4, 2009, at 00:44 , Bruce Simpson wrote:
>
>> George V. Neville-Neil wrote:
>>> Author: gnn
>>> Date: Thu Sep  3 21:10:57 2009
>>> New Revision: 196797
>>> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/196797
>>> 
>>> Log:
>>> Add ARP statistics to the kernel and netstat.
>>> 
>> 
>> Thanks very much for this change.
>> Any chance this struct can get explicitly versioned (i.e. as for struct 
>> igmpstat) as it is a new struct?
>> 
>
> bz@ and I will likely be tweaking this over time, so we can probably do that.

I am not entirely sure what "versioning" that struct would help?

ARP is from the early 80s, we've got 8 variables and 4 spares and
I cannot forsee any major rewrite of the code or the protocoll to
gather a lot more stats anymore.

/bz

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Bjoern A. Zeeb           What was I talking about and who are you again?