On Fri, 2006-07-04 at 18:11 -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > > 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. >
Makes a lot of sense. > 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. Indeed. I think that the broadcast ARP is still valid for any address configured as a link local addresses to be done in the kernel - for those reasons described in the RFC (which i didnt find very convincing, but other people felt strongly about and not having them implies not meeting the requirement). cheers, jamal - 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
