Gleb Smirnoff <[email protected]> wrote in <[email protected]>:
gl> Author: glebius gl> Date: Tue Oct 15 09:55:07 2013 gl> New Revision: 256512 gl> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/256512 gl> gl> Log: gl> Rewrite netstat/if.c to use getifaddrs(3) and getifmaddrs(3) instead of gl> libkvm digging in kernel memory. This is possible since r231506 made gl> getifaddrs(3) to supply if_data for each ifaddr. gl> gl> The pros of this change is that now netstat(1) doesn't know about kernel gl> struct ifnet and struct ifaddr. And these structs are about to change gl> significantly in head soon. New netstat binary will work well with 10.0 gl> and any future kernel. gl> gl> The cons is that now it isn't possible to obtain interface statistics gl> from a vmcore. I think this should be documented in netstat(8) man page. -- Hiroki
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