Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270734AbTHSPdY (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2003 11:33:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270716AbTHSPdX (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2003 11:33:23 -0400 Received: from pizda.ninka.net ([216.101.162.242]:48777 "EHLO pizda.ninka.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S272375AbTHSPdB (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2003 11:33:01 -0400 Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 08:22:27 -0700 From: "David S. Miller" To: Ben Greear Cc: davidsen@tmr.com, willy@w.ods.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, carlosev@newipnet.com, lamont@scriptkiddie.org, bloemsaa@xs4all.nl, marcelo@conectiva.com.br, netdev@oss.sgi.com, linux-net@vger.kernel.org, layes@loran.com, torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.4 PATCH] bugfix: ARP respond on all devices Message-Id: <20030819082227.5ef3b7ed.davem@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <3F41979C.3070408@candelatech.com> References: <3F41979C.3070408@candelatech.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.2 (GTK+ 1.2.6; sparc-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 546 Lines: 14 On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 20:21:00 -0700 Ben Greear wrote: > I never did hear a response to my comment that this > was inadequate in this age of vlans... Just define a rtnetlink attribute to extend the ID number, that's all. It's not hard work and it eliminates the 8-bit limit. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/