Re: [PATCHSET] Mobile IPv6 for 2.5.43

From: Krishna Kumar <hidden>
Date: 2002-10-17 17:42:43
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Hi yoshifuji,
[network_mods etc.]

 1. Too many hooks,
    and many duplicate codes in ipv6 stack and mipv6 stack.
    (prefix handler, header parser, ndisc handler etc...)
What do you mean about having too many hooks ? Eg. prefix handler, you need
to have a hook in the receive of router advertisement to do this. This is
minimum hooks :-). Also, some of the ndisc handlers evaluate to NULL code
for both regular IPv6 code (unless you have configured mobility) as well as
some components of Mobile IPv6. Eg ndisc_mipv6_mn_solicit_ha() evaluates to
NULL on HA and CN, but is a function call on every MN node. So I don't
understand your concern here.

Thanks,

- KK



                                                                                                                                          
                      YOSHIFUJI Hideaki                                                                                                   
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In article [ref] (at Thu, 17 Oct
2002 19:26:25 +0300), Antti Tuominen [off-list ref] says:
The patch has been split for easier reading as follows:

ipv6_tunnel.patch            6over6 tunneling
network_mods.patch           Modifications to network code and hooks
Several comments.

[ipv6_tunnel]

I think this is almost ok.

  1. I believe s/ARPHRD_IPV6_IPV6_TUNNEL/ARPHRD_TUNNEL6/.
  2. Please put outer address to hardware address in dev.
     Note: you need to modify SIOxxx ioctls too not to overrun!

[network_mods etc.]

  1. Too many hooks,
     and many duplicate codes in ipv6 stack and mipv6 stack.
     (prefix handler, header parser, ndisc handler etc...)

more comment will come later...

http://www.mipl.mediapoli.com/patches/mipv6_cn_support.patch
http://www.mipl.mediapoli.com/patches/mipv6_mn_support.patch
http://www.mipl.mediapoli.com/patches/mipv6_ha_support.patch
Well, I can't find them. I hope they'll be available when I wake up
tomorrow...

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Hideaki YOSHIFUJI @ USAGI Project [off-list ref]
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