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From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
To: Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Hasso Tepper <hasso@estpak.ee>,
	netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: primary and secondary ip addresses
Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 20:21:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050526182146.GV15391@postel.suug.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050526181118.GK13114@sunbeam.de.gnumonks.org>

* Harald Welte <20050526181118.GK13114@sunbeam.de.gnumonks.org> 2005-05-26 20:11
> David, would you consider applying that patch to mainline?  I think
> there was concensus on this solution, and it has now received some
> amount of testing by Hasso and me.

I agree, I've been running this patch for 3 weeks now without
any problems. Two comments below.

> @@ -281,6 +289,13 @@
>  		if (!in_dev->ifa_list)
>  			inetdev_destroy(in_dev);
>  	}
> +
> +	if (promote && IN_DEV_PROMOTE_SECONDARIES(in_dev)) {

promote can only be !=NULL if promotion is enabled, no?

> +		/* not sure if we should send a delete notify first? */
> +		promote->ifa_flags &= ~IFA_F_SECONDARY;
> +		rtmsg_ifa(RTM_NEWADDR, promote);

This can be improved, however sending a delete/add seems
inappropriate. I've patch prepared to add a change mask
which will give us the proper methods to do this right
but for now this is just fine I guess.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-26 18:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <41912F7A.6000408@redhat.com>
     [not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.61.0411100034320.10593@filer.marasystems.com>
2004-12-16  9:28   ` primary and secondary ip addresses Harald Welte
2004-12-16  9:53     ` Hasso Tepper
2004-12-16 10:07       ` Henrik Nordstrom
2004-12-16 11:02         ` Hasso Tepper
2004-12-16 16:02           ` Henrik Nordstrom
2004-12-17 15:10           ` Andrea G Forte
2004-12-17 15:27             ` Henrik Nordstrom
2004-12-17 15:58               ` Andrea G Forte
2004-12-17 16:39                 ` Henrik Nordstrom
2004-12-17 17:17                   ` Andrea G Forte
2004-12-17 19:17                     ` Henrik Nordstrom
2004-12-17 18:03                   ` Hasso Tepper
2004-12-17 18:37                     ` Martin A. Brown
2004-12-17 18:53                       ` Hasso Tepper
2004-12-17 19:25                         ` Henrik Nordstrom
2004-12-17 20:55                           ` Hasso Tepper
2004-12-17 20:54                       ` Andrea G Forte
2004-12-17 19:20                 ` David S. Miller
2004-12-17 19:48                   ` Henrik Nordstrom
2004-12-19 20:18                     ` jamal
2004-12-19 21:41                       ` Harald Welte
2004-12-19 22:02                         ` Thomas Graf
2004-12-19 22:59                           ` jamal
2004-12-19 23:56                             ` jamal
2004-12-20 13:55                               ` jamal
2004-12-20 14:29                                 ` Harald Welte
2005-04-12 10:54                                 ` Harald Welte
2005-05-08 12:31                                   ` Hasso Tepper
2005-05-26 18:11                                     ` Harald Welte
2005-05-26 18:21                                       ` Thomas Graf [this message]
2005-05-26 21:58                                       ` David S. Miller
2004-12-16 16:48     ` Paul Jakma

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