From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Tommi Virtanen <tv@debian.org>
Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Change MAC without bringing interface down
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 04:19:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030818041911.358c3437.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030818091312.GA4889@lapdog>
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 12:13:12 +0300
Tommi Virtanen <tv@debian.org> wrote:
> Here's a patch that
>
> 1. makes eth_header_cache_update also update the source MAC in
> hh_cache.
>
> 2. adds a NETDEV_CHANGEADDR notifier in net/core/neighbour.c
> that walks through all the neighbour entries and updates
> the hh_cache's for all the neighbour entries related to
> given device.
>
> 3. adds neighbour_init() to allow registration of said notifier.
I would suggest to fix this by instead flushing the hh
entries (just like neigh_destroy() does).
This way, we don't have to fix up every single header cache
implementation, that's painful :(
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-18 11:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-18 9:13 [PATCH] Change MAC without bringing interface down Tommi Virtanen
2003-08-18 11:19 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2003-08-18 12:13 ` jamal
2003-08-18 12:12 ` David S. Miller
2003-08-18 13:03 ` jamal
2003-08-18 16:04 ` Tommi Virtanen
2003-08-18 16:06 ` David S. Miller
2003-08-18 17:11 ` Tommi Virtanen
2003-08-18 18:51 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2003-08-19 5:50 ` Tommi Virtanen
2003-08-19 15:42 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2003-08-19 19:31 ` David S. Miller
2003-08-18 14:24 ` Tommi Virtanen
2003-08-18 14:20 ` David S. Miller
2003-08-18 15:10 ` jamal
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