From: Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>
To: Zheng Jianping <zjp@iscas.ac.cn>
Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: how ipv6 support multicast routing
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 08:45:43 +0200 (EET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0211070844230.8435-100000@netcore.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <005a01c28625$f63a6810$6c06a8c0@zhengjp>
On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Zheng Jianping wrote:
> We are developing IPv6 multicast routing protocol --PIM-SM. To support IPv6 multicast packet forwarding, Linux kernel need to be modified. I am coding the file 'ip6_mroute.c' which is derived from 'ipmr.c' in ipv4.
>
> My question is how to modify the IPv6 code in the kernl to make 'ip6_mroute.c' works, i.e how to modify the files such as 'ip6/ip6_ouput.c', 'ip6/route.c' , etc.
>
> I try to refrence to IPv4 code but it seems that the routing mechanism of IPv6 is something different from IPv4. So I get confused.
have you looked at ip6_input.c/ip6_output.c already? There's an
(obsolete) ip6_mc_input function there, perhaps it might get you started.
I recall usagi have made some minor modifications to it too, but I doubt
it works.
(I'd like to see PIM-SM work myself too.)
--
Pekka Savola "Tell me of difficulties surmounted,
Netcore Oy not those you stumble over and fall"
Systems. Networks. Security. -- Robert Jordan: A Crown of Swords
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-07 6:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-07 6:21 how ipv6 support multicast routing Zheng Jianping
2002-11-07 6:45 ` Pekka Savola [this message]
2002-11-07 7:34 ` Zheng Jianping
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