Re: [PATCH] [NET]: Fix deletion of local addresses only varying in prefix length

[Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>]

* Herbert Xu <20050305005911.GA27804@gondor.apana.org.au> 2005-03-05 11:59
> On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 01:29:10AM +0100, Thomas Graf wrote:
> > 
> > I've been thinking about this since yesterday and the best solution I
> > came up so far is to encode it in one of the yet unused bits in
> > the prefixlength field. After all we're only using 5bits of it. What
> > i'm thinking of in particular is to encode it as in 1 bit wildcard
> > flag 5 bits prefix length.
> 
> That's sound fine as long as we treat the current ip(8) prefix length
> as a wild card.

Although we should keep the behaviour of ip a a 1.1.1.1/24; ip a d
1.1.1.1, what about ip a a 1.1.1.1/24; ip a d 1.1.1.1/16? I think the
latter should not result in a deletion. We could achieve this by checking
the prefix length if either the exact-match flag is set or the 
prefixlength is != 32. This is of course quite minor and only affects
old iproute2 versions in combination with newer kernels.

Thougts?