Hello. In article <200307160021.EAA10195@dub.inr.ac.ru> (at Wed, 16 Jul 2003 04:21:33 +0400 (MSD)), kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru says: > Select yourself: either IFA_IFFLAGS or translated flags in ifa_flags. > I prefer the second way just because it is too unpleasant to add > a new attribute for sake of two bits with no visible candidates > to use remaining ones. Well, I dislike ifa_flags because - it is conceptually wrong to combine them. e.g. even if all autoconf addresses expired, flags lasts and we should report it to userspace. - ifa_flags is extremely expensive resource. There are only 8 bits. Use it only for addresses. My suggestion is: - create L3 per-interface RTM, say, RTM_xxxIFACE. - provide inet_device / inet6_dev things via this RTM. e.g. per-interface statistics, flags etc. -- Hideaki YOSHIFUJI @ USAGI Project <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> GPG FP: 9022 65EB 1ECF 3AD1 0BDF 80D8 4807 F894 E062 0EEA - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
