From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Simon Horman Subject: Re: [PATCH] IPVS: Move userspace definitions to include/linux/ip_vs.h Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 22:20:30 +1000 Message-ID: <20080709122029.GC7151@verge.net.au> References: <1215527396-15135-1-git-send-email-juliusv@google.com> <20080709011110.GA600@verge.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: lvs-devel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, kaber@trash.net, vbusam@google.com To: Julius Volz Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: lvs-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 01:24:35PM +0200, Julius Volz wrote: > On Wed, Jul 9, 2008, Simon Horman wrote: > > Firstly these changes look fine: Acked > > Thanks! > > > Secondly, What are your plans for ipvsadm? Do you think that a fork will > > be neccessasry to utilise the netlink interface? Or even a new tool with > > a completely new name? > > Vince is converting the latest available ipvsadm version to support > the Netlink interface and IPv6 features. So ideally, there will be no > fork or new tool, just a new version. We are keeping the old sockopt > interface in the kernel for userspace backwards compatibility, so > people will only need the new ipvsadm version if they need the new > features. The way Vince is currently implementing it, the new ipvsadm > will probably also keep supporting the sockopt interface as a > fallback, which would mean full backwards compatibility in both > directions. That sounds great. > As for the kernel part, I'm planning to post the Netlink interface > implementation (with minimal stubs for IPv6 support) sometime the next > days. -- Horms