From: jamal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 21:07:13 -0400
> On Fri, 2006-07-04 at 14:26 -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > > > If an RFC specifically describes the behavior of a specific range of > > IP addresses, we should follow that by default. > > > > The control/ownership of these IP addresses happens in user space; > they are the ones which decide what address to use example: > http://zeroconf.sourceforge.net/?selected=zcip > > unless you put them in the kernel (which is not a bad idea given we have > dhcp client already - some of the MS "OSes" do that), seems to me it > should be up to the user space program to make sure it uses the > addresses in that range. There is actually a desire to move this stuff out of the kernel, especially now that we have klibc and the like which is a more appropriate place for things like dhcp, rarp, and bootp. So what it comes down to is in which plane the configuration of these types of addresses explicitly occur. If userspace does this and intentionally knows that it is configuring that type of address, then yes the app should set the attributes correctly. That seems to be what you are suggesting. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
