Re: [PATCH net-2.6][NEIGH] Updating affected neighbours when about MAC address change

2007-12-24 Thread David Shwatrz
(neigh_changeaddr). So why not do it from the kernel ? DS On Dec 23, 2007 4:02 PM, Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Shwatrz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > Oop, I am TWICE sorry ! I wrongly attached a wrong, empty file. > > Attached here is t

[PATCH net-2.6] [NEIGH] [resend] Updating affected neighbours when about MAC address change in arp_netdev_event()

2007-12-23 Thread David Shwatrz
Hello, This is a resend of the patch according to Yoshifuji comment. I will send a patch for IPv6 later. We know that changes in MAC addresses are not frequent but we are working on a special, highly advanced networking Linux based project in our LABs, where we do change MAC addresses of an inte

Re: [PATCH net-2.6][NEIGH] Updating affected neighbours when about MAC address change

2007-12-23 Thread David Shwatrz
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" <[EMAI

Re: [PATCH net-2.6][NEIGH] Updating affected neighbours when about MAC address change

2007-12-23 Thread David Shwatrz
k, since it is multicast. Thoughts ? Regards, DS On Dec 23, 2007 2:38 PM, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (at Sun, 23 Dec 2007 14:24:00 +0200), "David > Shwatrz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > > > R

Re: [PATCH net-2.6][NEIGH] Updating affected neighbours when about MAC address change

2007-12-23 Thread David Shwatrz
it will no be also in IPv6. Regads, David Shwatrz On Dec 23, 2007 2:11 PM, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (at Sun, 23 Dec 2007 13:41:36 +0200), "David > Shwatrz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > > > I ha

[PATCH net-2.6][NEIGH] Updating affected neighbours when about MAC address change

2007-12-23 Thread David Shwatrz
ARP to update all the neighbours when a MAC address is changed. Signed-off-by: David Shwatrz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- 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

[PATCH net-2.6][NEIGH] Updating affected neighbours about MAC address change

2007-12-23 Thread David Shwatrz
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A short question about net git tree and patches

2007-12-20 Thread David Shwatrz
Hello, I have a short question regarding the net git tree and patches: I want to write and send patches against the most recent and bleeding edge kernel networking code. I see in: http://kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/?C=M;O=A that there are 3 git trees which can be candidates for git-cl