Re: ip addr flush hangs

[Shirley Ma <xma@xxxxxxxxxx>]

OK, I will submit a patch for anycast and multicast addresses throught different rtmsg.

Thanks
Shirley Ma
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YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 <yoshfuji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 <yoshfuji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent by: "Hideaki YOSHIFUJI" <yoshfuji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

03/09/2004 07:32 PM

To	davem@xxxxxxxxxx, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx, Shirley Ma/Beaverton/IBM@IBMUS
cc	okir@xxxxxxx, yoshfuji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject	Re: ip addr flush hangs

In article <OF34091B26.07758A8E-ON87256E52.00833C04-88256E53.00004022@xxxxxxxxxx> (at Tue, 9 Mar 2004 15:56:00 -0800), Shirley Ma <xma@xxxxxxxxxx> says:

> This fix causes a problem for SNMP IPv6 MIBs. It requires to dump all
> interface
> address types unicast/mcast/anycast. I would like suggest to fix the ip
> command to fix the problem.

Grr... Putting anycast/multicast is not good idea.
(Sorry, I did not notice at that time...)

Anycast should use IFA_ANYCAST ifaddrmsg instead of IFA_ADDRESS.
Multicast should be provided in a different way (different rtmsg),
or use IFA_MULTICAST or something like that.

--yoshfuji