RE: [PATCH 0/2][RFC] Network Event Notifier Mechanism

[jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>]

On Thu, 2006-22-06 at 15:11 -0700, Caitlin Bestler wrote:
> netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org wrote:


> 
> These subscriptions are an attempt to cede full control
> of these issues back to one place, the kernel, and to
> guarantee that an offload device can never think that
> the route to to X is Y when the kernel says it is Z.
> Or that it has a different PMTU, etc.
> 

Ok, so it is the routing information then that you are syncing,
correct? 

> I don't have any strong opinion on the best mechanism
> for implementing these subscriptions, but having correct
> consistent networking behaviour depend on a user-mode
> relay strikes me as odd.
> 

And why does it sound odd? 
You will need to think about one issue:
Linux caches routing info - it is not just as simple as keeping track of
the FIB and somehow correlating that to the ARP entries.  

cheers,
jamal