Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 24 Feb 2007 16:52:03 -0800 (PST) | Subject | Re: ipv4 and ipv6 stacks for new link layers? | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Markku Savela <msa@moth.iki.fi> Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 18:45:03 +0200
> I think that is worse than allow a new driver to provide a simple > service function which maps IPv4/6 multicast address into link layer > address, when asked.
The problem is that this mapping isn't so simple for several link layer types.
I outlined in another email this problem, in that any interface which would allow a driver-like-API for this would be either overly general or so specific as to be useless. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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