Herbert Xu wrote:
jamal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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).
I like the idea of allowing user-space to control what addresses cause
broadcasts. However, I'm uncomfortable with overloading existing flags
even though they might appear to fit the bill on the face of it.
People may be using this for completely different reasons (address
selection) and it's not polite to suddenly turn all their ARPs into
broadcasts.
This is what I was trying to get across in my previous messages, but you
say it more eloquently.
So how about a new address flag? We still have some vacancies there.
I have no problem with that and might even work on the user space
daemons to support it. But I don't have the inclination to try to
develop a more invasive (but general purpose) kernel patch at this time.
Currently we are only really using this on 2.4 kernels, so the patch was
submitted with the hope that when we transition to using 2.6 kernels it
would already be in place.
Thanks,
David Daney
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