Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 10 Jul 2004 04:59:04 +0900 (JST) | Subject | Re: [PATCH] s390 - mark IPv6 support for QETH as broken | From | YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 <> |
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In article <20040709123005.086fdfc5.davem@redhat.com> (at Fri, 9 Jul 2004 12:30:05 -0700), "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> says:
> On Fri, 9 Jul 2004 21:22:53 +0200 > Bastian Blank <bastian@waldi.eu.org> wrote: > > > The original submission is recorded on > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-net&m=104551077013011&w=2. And the > > complaint was that it puts '"ipv6 stuff" into the generic netdevice > > structure'. I don't know if this can be solved another way. > > Put it in the inet6device private area.
David, inet6device area is created when we create first address. The first address is likely link-local address based on mac address, and kernel detects address duplication and delete the inet6device. Finally, we don't have inet6device.
> It's been a year, and you haven't put forth the effort to look > for solutions like that?
I'd suggest following approach. 1. support up/down via netlink interface. 2. add IFLA_IFID (or something like that) (RTM_NEWLINK attribute) inet6 layer create inet6device without an address when receiving this.
User will be able to do # ip link eth0 up eui64 de:ad:be:ef:ca:fe:ba:be or something like this.
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