Hello,

You should iterate all of ifa_list (for IPv4) / addr_list (for IPv6).
For IPv6, we also have anycast (maintained by ac_list) as well.

I am not sure that we need to iterate all of ifa_list in IPv4.
The reason is that we end with arp_send, and it initiates a broadcast.
So all neighbours will receive it and update their arp tables
accordingly.
The dest hw in the arp_send is NULL according to this patch ; this means that
we will assign dev->broadcast to dest_hw  in apr_create().

It seems to me there's no reason to send more than one broadcast.

In IPv6, I need to check, since it is multicast.

Thoughts ?

Regards,
DS





On Dec 23, 2007 2:38 PM, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
[off-list ref] wrote:

In article [ref] (at Sun, 23 Dec 2007 14:24:00 +0200), "David Shwatrz" [off-list ref] says:

quoted

Regarding your answer;  I accept it and I will soon send a revised
version of this patch (making changes to
 arp_netdev_event() and ndisc_netdev_event().)
I had  IPv4 in mind, there is no reason that it will no be also in IPv6.

You should iterate all of ifa_list (for IPv4) / addr_list (for IPv6).
For IPv6, we also have anycast (maintained by ac_list) as well.

--yoshfuji