From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Mahesh Bandewar <mahesh@bandewar.net>
Cc: netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] ipmaddr: use preferred_family when given
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 09:29:52 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180817092952.5f79903f@xeon-e3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180815230855.130278-1-mahesh@bandewar.net>
On Wed, 15 Aug 2018 16:08:55 -0700
Mahesh Bandewar <mahesh@bandewar.net> wrote:
> From: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com>
>
> When creating socket() AF_INET is used irrespective of the family
> that is given at the command-line (with -4, -6, or -0). This change
> will open the socket with the preferred family.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com>
> ---
> ip/ipmaddr.c | 13 ++++++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
What is impact of this? Does ip multicast address changes not work on IPv6?
Or is it just doing the right thing?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-17 19:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-15 23:08 [PATCH iproute2] ipmaddr: use preferred_family when given Mahesh Bandewar
2018-08-17 16:29 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2018-08-17 17:19 ` Mahesh Bandewar (महेश बंडेवार)
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