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From: jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>
To: "YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明" <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Cc: dshwatrz@gmail.com, davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	kaber@trash.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-2.6][NEIGH] Updating affected neighbours when about MAC address change
Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2007 07:46:15 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1198413975.4423.65.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071223.213841.108421688.yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>

On Sun, 2007-23-12 at 21:38 +0900, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 wrote:
> In article <31436f4a0712230424n1cfaeb27o463e62093af41090@mail.gmail.com> (at Sun, 23 Dec 2007 14:24:00 +0200), "David Shwatrz" <dshwatrz@gmail.com> says:
> 
> > Regarding your answer;  I accept it and I will soon send a revised
> > version of this patch (making changes to
> >  arp_netdev_event() and ndisc_netdev_event().)
> > I had  IPv4 in mind, there is no reason that it will no be also in IPv6.
> 
> You should iterate all of ifa_list (for IPv4) / addr_list (for IPv6).
> For IPv6, we also have anycast (maintained by ac_list) as well.
> 

Hrm, how is this going to work for the case of multiple MACs on a
device? 
Changing one MAC address doesnt equate to issuing a grat arp with _the
new MAC_ for all ifa (given each MAC may be map to a different ifa) 

cheers,
jamal


  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-23 12:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-23 11:41 [PATCH net-2.6][NEIGH] Updating affected neighbours when about MAC address change David Shwatrz
2007-12-23 12:11 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2007-12-23 12:24   ` David Shwatrz
2007-12-23 12:38     ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2007-12-23 12:46       ` jamal [this message]
2007-12-23 13:04         ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2007-12-23 13:17           ` jamal
2007-12-24 14:33             ` jamal
2007-12-23 13:04       ` David Shwatrz
2007-12-23 13:13         ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2007-12-23 13:21           ` David Shwatrz
2007-12-23 14:02     ` Herbert Xu
2007-12-24 13:38       ` David Shwatrz
2007-12-24 14:50         ` jamal
2007-12-25  0:53           ` Herbert Xu

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