From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick McHardy Subject: Re: [PATCH] [NET]: Fix deletion of local addresses only varying in prefix length Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 01:46:42 +0100 Message-ID: <42290172.7020403@trash.net> References: <20050304012003.GA31837@postel.suug.ch> <20050304131419.GE31837@postel.suug.ch> <20050304233212.GA27421@gondor.apana.org.au> <20050305002910.GJ31837@postel.suug.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Herbert Xu , davem@davemloft.net, netdev@oss.sgi.com To: Thomas Graf In-Reply-To: <20050305002910.GJ31837@postel.suug.ch> Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Thomas Graf wrote: > I've been thinking about this since yesterday and the best solution I > came up so far is to encode it in one of the yet unused bits in > the prefixlength field. After all we're only using 5bits of it. What > i'm thinking of in particular is to encode it as in 1 bit wildcard > flag 5 bits prefix length. I think that would be ok. Unrelated to this: for IFA_ADDRESS we don't do an exact match, perhaps we should also do this for IFA_LOCAL for consistency. Regards Patrick