Hello Jordi,
Quoting Jordi Sanfeliu <jo...@fibranet.cat>:
> I've looked the patch and it seems that only covers FreeBSD version 7.x
> and 8.x, but I'm not sure if FreeBSD versions prior to 7 (6.x, 5.x, ...)
> could be also covered under the 7 condition.
Sorry, I did not take those into account as I don't have those
versions to test so I was not sure if they include the 'Idrop' field
in their netstat output.
As a quick note, from what I know FreeBSD always has three versions
supported at one time, at the moment, that is 7 (legacy), 8 (standard)
and 9 (experimental, next generation). As far as I can tell, this
means any version older than 7 is no longer supported by security
patches or the ports system. So I'm not sure if you want to support
versions earlier than 7, but it is up to you. It is easy to do it in
this case but if there are other issues with FreeBSD that are version
dependent, it might be an issue then.
> Also, assuming the 'Idrop' column will continue existing from now on,
> the next version 9 won't be covered by this patch forcing to add another
> patch to the code.
> I was thinking to use right now something like:
>
> if($kernel_branch > 7.2) {
> # has 'Idrop' column
> } else {
> # don't has 'Idrop' column
> }
This makes sense. It should work for most future versions as well. I
Should have taken that into account!
Best regards,
Sean
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