Vasumathi Sundaram writes:
> James Carlson wrote:
> > Vasumathi Sundaram writes:
> >   
> >>  > ::ill                              
> >> ADDR             NAME     CNT VER  WQ               UP  TYPE  FLAGS    
> >> 60012dca688      lo0      0    v4  0                R   LOOPB M,V
> >> 6001479d528      e1000g0  34   v4  60014f13d58      R   ETHER M,R
> >> 60013ac69c8      lo0      2    v6  0                R   LOOPB M,V
> >> 6001479d1a8      e1000g0  20   v6  60016675ad8      R   ETHER M
> >>     
> >
> > What does the "UP" field mean?
> >   
> It shows the RUNNING flag. I moved it out of FLAGS so that I can 
> represent the flags with a single letter. (It was clashing with ROUTER)

It seems to me that it'd be better to have either just _one_ flags
field, or some higher-level meaning for each of the flags fields.
"UP" is too narrow and "FLAGS" is too broad.

I'd suggest trying harder to combine these by choosing other letters
or using case.  As long as it's documented, anything reasonable will
work here.  And you can use the break-out format with "-v" to explain
the individual flags as well.

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