[Linux-ATM-General] Better instrumenting ATM/DSL

[Philip P. <phi...@re...>]

Hi.

I was thinking about how the kernel assigns IfIndex numbers for (amongst other things) SNMP to interfaces, and the fact that ATM doesn't use netdev's means that it can't be given one that's meaningful.

It also can't be the source or sync for netlink messages (route/link.h).

How could the ATM infrastructure be modified to better integrate with the kernel's notion of what an 'interface' is?

Thanks,

-Philip