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From: Tony Zelenoff <antonz@parallels.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH rhel6] Allow ipv6 proxies and arp proxies be shown with
 iproute2
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:03:39 +0400
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Oops, sorry for subject. The "rhel6" shouldn't be here.
If it is a problem - i'll resend patch without this stuff.

On 26.01.2012 18:49, Anton Zelenov wrote:
> Add ability to return neighbour proxies list to caller if
> it sent full ndmsg structure and has NTF_PROXY flag set.
>
> Before this patch (and before iproute2 patches):
> $ ip neigh add proxy 2001::1 dev eth0
> $ ip -6 neigh show
> $
>
> After it and with applied iproute2 patches:
> $ ip neigh add proxy 2001::1 dev eth0
> $ ip -6 neigh show
> 2001::1 dev eth0  proxy
> $
>
> Compatibility with old versions of iproute2 is not broken,
> kernel checks for incoming structure size and properly
> works if old structure is came.