Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 14:03:51 -0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: "Bruce M. Simpson" <bms@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass@teledomenet.gr>, Max Laier <max@love2party.net> Subject: Re: bikeshed for all! Message-ID: <4761AC47.2010904@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <47619502.5070404@FreeBSD.org> References: <476061FD.8050500@elischer.org> <200712130021.56473.max@love2party.net> <476072DB.3090600@elischer.org> <200712131549.21669.nvass@teledomenet.gr> <476190F2.2030105@elischer.org> <47619502.5070404@FreeBSD.org>
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Bruce M. Simpson wrote: > How about "setfib"? > > I strongly believe we should deprecate the use of the term "routing" > where the BSD forwarding plane is concerned, whilst familiar to many it > is misleading as to what that part of the system is actually doing. maybe, but it would be a large surprise to everyone who expects that structure be be called the routing table as it still is in most systems. In OpenBSD they have decided to call the in-kernel decriptor 'id' but I'd rather go with tableid or maybe tbl_num, because 'id' is too generic. 'tid' is already thread id. > > 2c > BMS
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