All: I have been deep in the middle of breaking SCTP's dependencies on looking at ifa structures...
One of the problems I have run in to is that V6 has this additional set of flags: ifa6->ia6_flags And it can have things like: IN6_IFF_DEPRECATED IN6_IFF_DETACHED IN6_IFF_ANYCAST IN6_IFF_NOTREADY Now obviously if you have a deprecated or detached address you probably do not want to use them.. nor do you want to use a "NOTREADY" since I think that means that DAD has not finished... So, I am contemplating adding to rtsock.c the ability to send these types of events up. I am thinking on adding this there for two reasons.. a) SCTP already hooks into the routing socket to get interface changes. and b) It may well be a relevant fact that if an address becomes DETACHED or non-DETACHED (etc) for a routing process to want to know about.. What do others think? If I am off in the weeds somewhere and this does not concern the routing socket I could use other methods .. including isolating the "look at the state" flags into a special place so that proper locking could be added when we actually do locking for the ifa's... of course I would prefer just not to have to look at it :-D Opinions if this is a good idea or not?? Thanks R -- Randall Stewart NSSTG - Cisco Systems Inc. 803-345-0369 <or> 803-317-4952 (cell) _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
