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From: Matthew Hall <mhall-Hv3ogNYU3JfZZajBQzqCxQ@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: symbol conflicts between netinet/in.h, arpa/inet.h,
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Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 16:03:27 -0700
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On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 10:55:59PM +0000, Antti Kantee wrote:
> In my experience from years of fighting with more or less this exact same
> problem -- the fight is now thankfully over but the scars remain -- you
> either want to expose a complete set of types and provide support for
> everything, or you want to expose nothing.

I don't have a problem with this approach. Implementing it would require the 
DPDK to create user accessible functions for creating MAC addresses, IPs, 
CIDRs, and TCP / UDP port numbers. Many of the things required are hiding 
inside of *cmdline* code where it's impossible for anybody to access them.

Matthew.