On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 12:11 -0400, Peter Memishian wrote: > > I don't see how the same underlying interface could be broadcast-type > > as far as IPv4 is concerned, but point-to-point for IPv6, or > > vice-versa, so putting it on the phyint makes more sense to me. > > Can't the same be said of the existing ILLF_MULTICAST flag? Or are we > concerned about a hypothetical future IP version that doesn't support > multicast, like IPv6 and broadcast?
The BROADCAST flag should represent that the media supports broadcast, not the IP interface. It seems to me that the missing BROADCAST flag on IPv6 interfaces is a bug. > (And speaking of broadcast, shouldn't > that be ILLF_BROADCAST rather than IPIF_BROADCAST once IPIF_POINTPOINT > gets changed?) This should arguably be PHYI_BROADCAST IMO. -Seb _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
