On 2016/04/12 14:18, Claudio Jeker wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 01:47:53PM +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 12:27:10PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> > > On 2016/04/12 13:00, Martin Pieuchot wrote:
> > > > Relying on the "scopeid" field is not a viable long-term solution.  I'm
> > > > spending too much time these days trying to figure out which interface
> > > > correspond to which index.
> > > > 
> > > > Here's a difference in output, then the diff itself.  ok?
> > > > 
> > > > @@ -1,31 +1,29 @@
> > > >  lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 32768
> > > > +       index 4
> > > >         priority: 0
> > > >         groups: lo
> > > >         inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
> > > >         inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
> > > >         inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
> > > >  em0: 
> > > > flags=18b43<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,ALLMULTI,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,MPSAFE>
> > > >  mtu 1500
> > > > -       lladdr f0:de:f9:1d:88:53
> > > > +       index 1 lladdr f0:de:f9:1d:88:53
> > > 
> > > This will break scripts, e.g. "awk '/lladdr/ {print $2}'"
> > > 
> > > I would expect putting it after lladdr would be better for the sort
> > > of scripts a user is likely to write, but bsd.rd would need a change
> > > if that was done, it uses sed 's/.*lladdr \(.*\)/\1/p;d'
> > > 
> > > On a new line would be safer.
> > 
> > How about appending to the flags line, like this?
> > 
> > lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 32768 index 4
> > 
> 
> Or on the line with priority? The risk of breaking scripts that way is
> probably smaller.

I'd be happier with priority, the flags line can get quite long these days!

|-80-columns-ruler-------------------------------------------------------------|
vlan1200: 
flags=58843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,MPSAFE,INET6_NOPRIVACY> mtu 
1500

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