Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > Al Boldi wrote: > > The current ip / ifconfig configuration is arcane and inflexible. The > > reason being, that they are based on design principles inherited from > > the last century. > > Yes I agree, however note that some of the asumptions are backed up and > required by RFCs. For example the binding of addresses to interfaces. This > is especially strongly required in the IPV6 world with all the scoping and > renumbering RFCs. Can you point me to those RFCs? Thanks! > The things you want to change need to be changed in kernel space, btw. True. I mentioned ip / ifconfig not to imply that they are the culprit, but instead to expose the underlying kernel implementation. This does not mean though, that ip / ifconfig cannot offer an emulated OSI compliant mode, which would be an impetus to change the underlying implementation. Thanks! -- Al - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
