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From: raviprasad20@netscape.net
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Subject: Re: Display of prefixes in aperticular ifnet structure.
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Hi,
As per your advice i left the prefix command & gave prefixes in the configuration file /etc/defaults/rc.conf itself. Still my print is the one that that i have mentioned.
Kindly reply.
regards
ravi prasad

JINMEI Tatuya / 
 <jinmei@isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp> wrote:
>
> >>>>> On Sat, 02 Jun 2001 09:27:30 -0400, 
> >>>>> raviprasad20@netscape.net said:
> 
> > I configured some prefixes through the "prefix" command. I then tried to display them as itis by reading the "ifnet" structure's "if_prefixhead" member. The result is like this.
> 
> > Prefix was set as
> > #prefix wb0 fec0:11::1
> 
> > the prefix displayed later by reading the ifnet structure is as follows.
> > The data is in 8bits. (Displayed by using the
> > printf(" %x\t",ifp->if_prefixhead.next->prefix.s6_addr8[0]); & etc till 15) 
> 
> > The output is like this.
> > 00     00     00     00     00     00     fe    c0    00    11   00    00
> > 00     00     00     00
> 
> 
> > Can any body mail me if I had done some mistake & that's why iam getting the above result?
> >  Or there is some other place where prefixes are stored & from that place we can get prefixes correctly?
> > Are prefixes stored in this way itself?
> 
> I'm not sure, but we (the KAME project) would really recommend not to
> use the prefix command, but stick to legacy ifconfig(8).  We've found
> many weird situations (including kernel panic) that the prefix
> manipulation cause, so the prefix command and the underling kernel has
> already been obsoleted in the KAME snaps, and the change will be
> merged into future releases of FreeBSD.
> 
>                     JINMEI, Tatuya
>                     Communication Platform Lab.
>                     Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corp.
>                     jinmei@isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp
> 
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