On (06/16/09 10:06), Sebastien Roy wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 09:31 -0400, [email protected] wrote:
> > Are there any driver out there, that implement DL_IPV6_LINK_LAYER_ADDR
> >  to their update IPv6 link-layer address information with IP?
> >  
> >  There seems to be some inconsistencies in the way we switch between
> >  ill_phys_addr_length and ill_nd_lla_len, and sorting this out would
> >  in the absence of XRESOLVers would be good.
> 
> Agreed.
> 
> I believe that this was introduced to support IPv6 over ATM, which is
> described in PSARC 1999/446 and 2001/023 [1].  AFAIK, the only driver
> that ever supported this was Sun's ATM driver, which was EOL'ed by PSARC
> 2006/272.


I noticed the same, but I also saw references to it for IB in
2001/289 (though I couldn't find any supporting code). Does IB need this?

--Sowmini

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