Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote: > On Wednesday 11 July 2007 15:29:16 YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 wrote: >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (at Tue, 10 Jul 2007 > 21:11:17 +0300), Remi Denis-Courmont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: >>> ICMPv6 Router Advertisements may now contain informations that is >>> mostly of interest to userland. This currently mostly consists of >>> recursive DNS server addresses (though one should expect other >>> stuff to come). >> I really do not want to have such non-standard API in kernel. > > I can only think of a very limited set of ways to extract options from RAs > that the kernel currently ignores: > > 1) parse everything in kernel addrconf.c > 2) validate RA in kernel, parse userland options in userland
Yes, #2 is the right option. However, I agree that passing such info with non-standard socket option is not ideal. Since you asked for another idea, how about using netlink to send _validated_ RA information to interested parties? -vlad - 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
