On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 03:04:20PM +0200, Andrew Beekhof wrote: > On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 5:09 AM, Simon Horman <ho...@verge.net.au> wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 09:19:44AM +0900, Keisuke MORI wrote: > >> The attached patch is to remove libnet dependency from IPv6addr RA > >> by replacing the same functionality using the standard socket API. > >> > >> Currently there are following problems with resource-agents package: > >> > >> - IPv6addr RA requires an extra libnet package on the run-time > >> environment. > >> That is pretty inconvenient particularly for RHEL users because > >> it's not included in the standard distribution. > >> > >> - The pre-built RPMs from ClusterLabs does not include IPv6addr RA. > >> This was once reported in the pacemaker list: > >> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linuxha/pacemaker/64295#64295 > >> > >> The patch will resolve those issues. > >> I believe that none of Pacemaker/Heartbeat related packages would be > >> depending on libnet library any more after patched. > > > > Hi Mori-san, > > > > I will add that libnet seems to be more or less unmaintained. > > Someone recently picked it up again, but I'm in favor of the patch for > the reasons Mori-san already stated. > > > You seem to make using libnet optional, is there a reason > > not to just remove it? portability? > > Agreed, lets just drop it.
Ack. BTW, is it correct that most of it could be done by "ip", similar as IPaddr2 does it? The only think missing would be a send_arp v6. Anyone want to write an IPv6addr2? ;-) -- : Lars Ellenberg : LINBIT | Your Way to High Availability : DRBD/HA support and consulting http://www.linbit.com DRBD® and LINBIT® are registered trademarks of LINBIT, Austria. _______________________________________________________ Linux-HA-Dev: Linux-HA-Dev@lists.linux-ha.org http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha-dev Home Page: http://linux-ha.org/
