Network Interface Structure Management Routines

The FreeBSD kernel provides the following functions for working with ifnet structures:

#include <net/if.h>
#include <net/if_types.h>
#include <net/if_var.h>

struct ifnet *
if_alloc(u_char type);

void
if_initname(struct ifnet *ifp, const char *name, int unit); void if_attach(struct ifnet *ifp); void if_detach(struct ...

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