From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
To: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] ipv6: add support of peer address
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 10:31:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <517F816C.8080405@6wind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1367268252-4810-1-git-send-email-nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Le 29/04/2013 22:44, Nicolas Dichtel a écrit :
> This patch adds the support of peer address for IPv6. For example, it is
> possible to specify the remote end of a 6inY tunnel.
> This was already possible in IPv4:
> ip addr add ip1 peer ip2 dev dev1
>
> The peer address is specified with IFA_ADDRESS and the local address with
> IFA_LOCAL (like explained in include/uapi/linux/if_addr.h).
> Note that the API is not changed, because before this patch, it was not
> possible to specify two different addresses in IFA_LOCAL and IFA_REMOTE.
> There is a small change for the dump: if the peer is different from ::,
> IFA_ADDRESS will contain the peer address instead of the local address.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Please, drop this patch. I must rework it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-30 8:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-29 20:44 [PATCH net-next] ipv6: add support of peer address Nicolas Dichtel
2013-04-30 8:31 ` Nicolas Dichtel [this message]
2013-04-30 9:17 ` [PATCH net-next v2] " Nicolas Dichtel
2013-04-30 19:04 ` David Miller
2013-04-30 21:58 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2013-05-17 8:32 ` [RESEND PATCH " Nicolas Dichtel
2013-05-19 22:10 ` David Miller
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