Re: [PATCH] anycast support for IPv6, updated to 2.5.44

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Date: Wed Mar 19 2003 - 22:01:36 EST


In article <20030319.163105.44963500.davem@redhat.com> (at Wed, 19 Mar 2003 16:31:05 -0800 (PST)), "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> says:

> From: "David Stevens" <dlstevens@us.ibm.com>
> Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 14:06:00 -0700
>
> Below is a patch to add anycast support for IPv6. It's the same patch as
> I've posted previously, but updated with comments from Chris Hellwig and
> for kernel version 2.5.44.
>
> I'm going to apply this, with the small change that dev_getany() is
> renamed to dev_get_by_flags() which more accurately describes
> what the routine does.

Again: I don't like API at all.

Anycast address management itself in that patch would be ok.
However, JOIN/LEAVE is NOT useful and userland application will be
incompatible with other implementation. (sigh...)
I think linux likes unicast model (assign address like unicast address), too.

And, we see __constant_{hton,ntoh}{l,h}() again...

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