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From: Peter Wemm <peter@haywire.DIALix.COM>
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On Fri, 2 Jun 1995, Terry Lambert wrote:
> [ ... how to count interfaces ... ]
> 
> > Opinions?
> 
> In preference order:
> 
> 1)	Do it via sysctl anyway.

Just as a BTW: Is this method fairly consistant across the 4.4BSD type 
machines? Or are there variations on the way it has been implemented?

> 2)	Do it the Sun way.

Yep.  IMHO, third-party code is far more likely going to get "#ifdef 
SIOCGIFNUM" than a sysctl() rewrite, especially since Sun, HP, AIX, etc 
dont have sysctl().

I think named would be a good candidate to be in group 1), because Paul 
Vixie uses BSD/OS, so he'd be able to test it.

-Peter