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From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] vxlan: allow specifying multiple default
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Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 16:57:19 +0100
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On 05/30/13 at 03:46pm, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> I'm feeling Ok about "ip link set [..] dstadd/dstdel". What does bother
> me is that you can't have different parameters for "ip link add" and "ip
> link set" for vxlan (and other iplink) utility. So, one can use
> ip link add [..] dstdel
> which does not make sense...

You can easily pass an additional argument into iplink_modify()
and exclude certain options in the "add" use case.