[Xorp-hackers] show commands

[Pavlin Radoslavov]

> > The "show interfaces" command obtains the information from the FEA
> > (to be more specific, from the module named "interface" that is
> > inside the FEA), hence if the FEA is not running the "show interfaces"
> > command won't be there. Practically all XORP modules depend
> > (directly or indirectly) on the "interface" module inside the FEA so
> > the "show interfaces" command should be almost always there. Only if
> > you are running XORP with an empty configuration for example, then
> > you won't see that command.
> This makes sense however:
>  XORP> create fea
>  XORP> commit
>  XORP> exit
>  Xorp> show interfaces
>  Xorp>
> 
> imho, "show interfaces" should list all interfaces
> available on the system, not just the ones
> configured. On systems such as FreeBSD where the
> interfaces are named fxp,em,xl and so forth it
> becomes a guess work to configure a interface.
> I understand from a development perspective it's
> much easier to just list the ones configured but I
> really think this should be changed to include all
> interfaces.

I would argue that the existing "show interfaces" command should
show only the interfaces that XORP knows about, but yes I agree that
there should be a separate command to show all available interfaces
on the system. Please add this feature as a bugzilla entry.

Pavlin