Re: [PATCH] Netlink messages for multicast HW addr programming

Stephen Hemminger
2016-02-03T23:41:19Z

On Wed, 3 Feb 2016 06:14:41 -0800
Patrick Ruddy <pruddy@Brocade.com> wrote:

> One more Q on this. I can use IFA_ADDRESS for unicast addresses and
> IFA_MULTICAST for multicast addresses but are these distinctions
> actually required since the multicast nature of an address is clear from
> the address itself - at least it is for ethernet and ifininet?

The flags on L2 addresses should be analagous to what happens with L3 (IP) addresses.