In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (at Sun, 23 Dec 2007 15:04:37 +0200), "David Shwatrz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says:
> Hello, > > > >You should iterate all of ifa_list (for IPv4) / addr_list (for IPv6). > > For IPv6, we also have anycast (maintained by ac_list) as well. > > I am not sure that we need to iterate all of ifa_list in IPv4. > The reason is that we end with arp_send, and it initiates a broadcast. > So all neighbours will receive it and update their arp tables > accordingly. > The dest hw in the arp_send is NULL according to this patch ; this means that > we will assign dev->broadcast to dest_hw in apr_create(). > > It seems to me there's no reason to send more than one broadcast. Urgh? what is happend if you have multiple IPv4 addresses on the device? > In IPv6, I need to check, since it is multicast. Please read RFC2461 Section 7.2.6. In short we should send a few unsolicited NA, but I think you can start from sending once per an address. --yoshfuji -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
