Re: Integrating IXP4xx NPE support in kernel (with IXP4xxaccesslibrary)

2005-12-24 Thread Marc Singer
On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 09:49:42AM -0800, John Bowler wrote: > >The click-through license establishes the same ol' terms. "You can > >only distribute this software with a hardware product." > > This probably isn't a good place to discuss the license, particularly > as I'm certainly not a lawyer,

Re: Integrating IXP4xx NPE support in kernel (with IXP4xx accesslibrary)

2005-12-24 Thread Marc Singer
On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 06:07:52AM -0800, Deepak Saxena wrote: > On Dec 21 2005, at 15:48, Stefan Roese was caught saying: > > Hi Lennert, > > > > On Wednesday 21 December 2005 14:52, Lennert Buytenhek wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 01:00:34PM +0100, Stefan Roese wrote: > > > > The main ques

Re: [RFC] ip / ifconfig redesign

2005-12-05 Thread Marc Singer
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 11:48:52PM +0100, Jeroen Massar wrote: > John Heffner wrote: > > Jeroen Massar wrote: > >> I wonder how many RFC's it violates. An interface must only answer ARP's > >> on the interface that it is configured on, not anything else. > > > > Not true. See RFC 1122, section 3.

Re: [RFC] ip / ifconfig redesign

2005-12-05 Thread Marc Singer
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 06:03:02PM -0500, John Heffner wrote: > Rick Jones wrote: > >John Heffner wrote: > >>Yes, but if an interface will accept packets for a certain IP address, > >>and will send packets with that IP address, is there any reason it > >>can't ARP for that address? > > > > > >If

Re: [RFC] ip / ifconfig redesign

2005-12-05 Thread Marc Singer
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 10:00:41AM -0800, Ben Greear wrote: > >Precisely the case. It should be the case that a box response to an > >arp on *any* interface for *any* IP address known to the box. > > I certainly don't mind if this is a configurable, or even default > behaviour, but we also need t

Re: [RFC] ip / ifconfig redesign

2005-12-05 Thread Marc Singer
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 06:59:07PM +0100, Jeroen Massar wrote: > Marc Singer wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 09:01:00AM -0500, John W. Linville wrote: > >> On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 10:33:32AM -0800, Ben Greear wrote: > > >> The association between IP addresses an

Re: [RFC] ip / ifconfig redesign

2005-12-05 Thread Marc Singer
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 09:01:00AM -0500, John W. Linville wrote: > On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 10:33:32AM -0800, Ben Greear wrote: > > Al Boldi wrote: > > > > >Here specifically, ip/ifconfig is implemented upside-down requiring a > > >link/dev to exist for an address to be defined, in effect contain