Peter Memishian wrote:
> Why not the phyint? BTW, this chane will allow for minor simplifications
> to a number of functions -- e.g., with Clearview IPMP, the kernel has to
> iterate over all of the ipifs on an ill to see if IPIF_POINTOPOINT is set
> (and fail the operation if so) when adding an ill to a group. I look
> forward to just checking a single flag :-)
It doesn't make sense for the driver to have different modes for IPv4
and IPv6. But there are two things we need to look at with some care:
- we issue a DL_INFO_ACK separately for the IPv4 and IPv6 ill. How
should IP behave if the two would resulting in different POINTOPOINT etc
settings? Assert?
- we currently do not set IFF_BROADCAST on an IPv6 interface
(presumably the logic is that IPv6 doesn't offer a broadcast service on
that interface even though the datalink provides a broadcast service.)
Would anything break if we changed this?
Erik
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