Sorry about that. The use case is fast failover where a active ip address (on the same subnet) can be brought up on an interface without having to re-solicit the hw addresses that were gathered while the interface was standby (had a standby ip address).
/Jesper On 2011-12-14 14:24, Jan Kiszka wrote: > Please follow the format > > [PATCH] Subject line > > Patch description lines, specifically explaining the "why". > > Signed-off > (see also > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/SubmittingPatches;h=689e2371095cc5dfea9927120009341f369159aa;hb=f6f94e2ab1b33f0082ac22d71f66385a60d8157f#l297) > > The comments below apply if you can explain the use case to me. The > standard Linux networking stack seems to behave like current RTnet. > > On 2011-12-13 17:22, Jesper Christensen wrote: >> >> diff --git a/stack/ipv4/af_inet.c b/stack/ipv4/af_inet.c >> index 8b394be..18754cf 100644 >> --- a/stack/ipv4/af_inet.c >> +++ b/stack/ipv4/af_inet.c >> @@ -239,7 +239,16 @@ static void rt_ip_ifup(struct rtnet_device *rtdev, >> int i; >> >> >> - rt_ip_route_del_all(rtdev); /* cleanup routing table */ >> + /* Only delete our own address if the new address is >> + on the same subnet */ >> + if (rtdev->broadcast_ip == up_cmd->args.up.broadcast_ip) >> + rt_ip_route_del_host(rtdev->local_ip, rtdev); >> + else >> + rt_ip_route_del_all(rtdev); /* cleanup routing table */ >> + >> + /* Delete our loopback route for the device */ > The following block should be moved into the selective deletion path > above (as del_all already does it for us). > >> + if ((tmp = rtdev_get_loopback()) != NULL) > Please split up assignment and comparison into two lines (yes, that used > to be done differently in past here as well). > >> + rt_ip_route_del_host(rtdev->local_ip, tmp); > rtdev_dereference(tmp) is missing. > >> >> if (up_cmd->args.up.ip_addr != 0xFFFFFFFF) { >> rtdev->local_ip = up_cmd->args.up.ip_addr; > Thanks, > Jan > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Cloud Computing - Latest Buzzword or a Glimpse of the Future? This paper surveys cloud computing today: What are the benefits? Why are businesses embracing it? What are its payoffs and pitfalls? http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sdnl/114/51425149/ _______________________________________________ RTnet-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rtnet-developers
