From: "YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明" <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
To: xma@us.ibm.com
Cc: davem@redhat.com, mashirle@us.ibm.com, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru,
netdev@oss.sgi.com, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IPv6 MIB:ipv6RouterAdvert netlink notification
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 05:23:48 +0900 (JST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040117.052348.44213733.yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OF6E7E4DFA.6824D151-ON87256E1D.006A89B5@us.ibm.com>
In article <OF6E7E4DFA.6824D151-ON87256E1D.006A89B5@us.ibm.com> (at Fri, 16 Jan 2004 11:41:59 -0800), Shirley Ma <xma@us.ibm.com> says:
> Yes. radvd should provide all these information. But radvd doesn't support
> this right now. I talked to someone who is patching SNMP to support new IP
> MIBs, he said it's better to support this through netlink, since netlink
> supports all other MIBs. Does netlink support user-user communication?
Yes, netlink is one option and is possibly a good candidate.
I believe netlink supports user-user communication and
rtadvd can use it to provide information to other entities.
> Anyway I will talk to radvd maintainers to ask them to support this if you
> think this netlink notification is not needed.
I do not think netlink RA notification is required in kernel.
What you (or the radvd maintainer) need to do is to
allocate some constants and structures for the message.
--
Hideaki YOSHIFUJI @ USAGI Project <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-16 20:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-16 19:41 [PATCH] IPv6 MIB:ipv6RouterAdvert netlink notification Shirley Ma
2004-01-16 20:08 ` David S. Miller
2004-01-16 20:23 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 [this message]
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2004-01-16 18:38 Shirley Ma
2004-01-16 19:17 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2004-01-15 22:31 Shirley Ma
2004-01-15 23:04 ` Shirley Ma
2004-01-15 23:04 ` David S. Miller
2004-01-16 1:37 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2003-11-20 0:21 IPv6 MIB:ipv6PrefixTable implementation Shirley Ma
2003-12-05 21:51 ` [PATCH] IPv6 MIB:ipv6Prefix netlink notification Shirley Ma
2003-12-05 22:57 ` David S. Miller
2004-01-14 23:52 ` [PATCH] IPv6 MIB:ipv6RouterAdvert " Shirley Ma
2004-01-15 8:52 ` David S. Miller
2004-01-15 9:10 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
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