ifconfig description

[Anton Yuzhaninov]

Friday, November 25, 2005, 3:22:17 PM, bart wrote:

b> I have couple of bsd routers with dozens vlans
b> and missed ability to make comment on interface like cisco description

You can use zebra (quagga) daemon for interface description:

# sh int vlan17
Interface vlan17 is up, line protocol detection is disabled
  Description: -- Customer 8140, room 411
  index 14 metric 1 mtu 1500 <UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST>
  HWaddr: 00:90:27:af:77:f6
  inet 192.168.14.1/24 broadcast 192.168.14.255
    input packets 5718144, bytes 812660461, dropped 0, multicast packets 119814
    input errors 0
    output packets 7149073, bytes 2620267769, multicast packets 0
    output errors 0
    collisions 0

/usr/ports/net/zebra
/usr/ports/net/quagga
    
-- 
 WBR, Anton v. Yuzhaninov