Yoshfuji, Thanks, you are right ! soon I will send the patches.
Thanks ! DS On Dec 23, 2007 3:13 PM, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (at Sun, 23 Dec 2007 15:04:37 +0200), "David > Shwatrz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > > > Hello, > > > > > > >You should iterate all of ifa_list (for IPv4) / addr_list (for IPv6). > > > For IPv6, we also have anycast (maintained by ac_list) as well. > > > > I am not sure that we need to iterate all of ifa_list in IPv4. > > The reason is that we end with arp_send, and it initiates a broadcast. > > So all neighbours will receive it and update their arp tables > > accordingly. > > The dest hw in the arp_send is NULL according to this patch ; this means > > that > > we will assign dev->broadcast to dest_hw in apr_create(). > > > > It seems to me there's no reason to send more than one broadcast. > > Urgh? what is happend if you have multiple IPv4 addresses on the device? > > > > In IPv6, I need to check, since it is multicast. > > Please read RFC2461 Section 7.2.6. In short we should send a few > unsolicited NA, but I think you can start from sending once per an > address. > > --yoshfuji > -- 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
