From: Olaf Titz <olaf@bigred.inka.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ipv4 and ipv6 stacks for new link layers?
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 17:00:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1HKzK9-0001aX-TT@bigred.inka.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200702231149.l1NBnlZD029626@moth.iki.fi>
> This is a pity, because it would be so easy to make the both stacks
> totally independent of the actual link layers. It only needs one (or
> two) new function pointer in net_device. This function should do the
> conversion from IPv4/IPv6 address into corresponding hardware
> multicast/broadcast address.
You mean, the link layer drivers should know of IP addressing modes?
Sounds like a layering violation to me. The mapping from IP to MAC
address is (for a good reason) part of the IP specs, not of the
Ethernet, Token Ring etc. specs, so the right place to implement it is
not the network drivers.
Olaf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-24 16:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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 [this message]
2007-02-24 16:45 ` Markku Savela
2007-02-25 0:52 ` David Miller
2007-02-25 10:27 ` Olaf Titz
2007-02-25 11:21 Al Boldi
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