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From: Pablo Neira <pablo@netfilter.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] CLUSTERIP: use a bitmap to store node responsibility
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Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 15:29:31 +0200
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Hi Krisztian,

KOVACS Krisztian wrote:
> @@ -55,8 +56,7 @@
>  	u_int8_t clustermac[ETH_ALEN];		/* the MAC address */
>  	struct net_device *dev;			/* device */
>  	u_int16_t num_total_nodes;		/* total number of nodes */
> -	u_int16_t num_local_nodes;		/* number of local nodes */
> -	u_int16_t local_nodes[CLUSTERIP_MAX_NODES];	/* node number array */
> +	unsigned long local_nodes;		/* node number array */

I'm afraid that this breaks backward compatibility. Although CLUSTERIP 
is marked as experimental.

@Harald: Should we respect backward compatibility in this case?

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Pablo