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From: Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ipv4 and ipv6 stacks for new link layers?
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 14:21:16 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200702251421.16863.a1426z@gawab.com> (raw)

David Miller wrote:
> From: Markku Savela <msa@moth.iki.fi>
> > I think that is worse than allow a new driver to provide a simple
> > service function which maps IPv4/6 multicast address into link layer
> > address, when asked.
>
> The problem is that this mapping isn't so simple for several
> link layer types.

But this mapping seems to be just a simple de-coupling tool, and any 
de-coupling by definition does/should not change the underlying 
implementation in any way, while allowing for a dynamic rather than a 
fixed/hardcoded relation between the layers.

So, can you give an example of a link-layer that does not easily de-couple 
from the transport?


Thanks!

--
Al


             reply	other threads:[~2007-02-25 11:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-25 11:21 Al Boldi [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-02-23 11:49 Markku Savela
2007-02-23 13:47 ` Neil Horman
2007-02-24  0:26   ` David Miller
2007-02-24 16:00 ` Olaf Titz
2007-02-24 16:45   ` Markku Savela
2007-02-25  0:52     ` David Miller
2007-02-25 10:27     ` Olaf Titz

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