Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 12:04:23PM CET, jengelh@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > >On Thursday 2010-02-25 11:23, Patrick McHardy wrote: >>Jiri Pirko wrote: >>> Hi all. >>> >>> I want to ask if there is any particular reason for ipt_CLUSTERIP >>> to support only address length of 6 (ETH_ALEN)? It seems to me >>> reasonable for this to work even with another types of network hw >>> with different addr_len. >> >>None that I'm aware of, but the length is also used in the ABI, >>so you presently can't supply larger addresses. > >The larger picture is that there seems to be quite a bit of ABI >even outside of the kernel that uses ETH_ALEN and/or ETH_HLEN >in many places; for example, the tcpdump cooked interface IIRC. Hmm, thats sad :( IMHO this should be ETH independent... > >Is there an _actual_ use case however? Is it suddenly possible >to use EUI-64s? Or a run on IPX? :-) Well for example Infiniband has 20-bytes address. But I do not know much about this kinds of hw & iptables use. I'm just looking at code and wondering :) Jirka -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
