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Date:      Sun, 24 Mar 2002 05:20:56 -0800
From:      Luigi Rizzo <luigi@freebsd.org>
To:        Maxim Konovalov <maxim@macomnet.ru>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: is 'device ether' mandatory now?
Message-ID:  <20020324052056.B87371@iguana.icir.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020323204359.Y10340-100000@news1.macomnet.ru>
References:  <20020323204359.Y10340-100000@news1.macomnet.ru>

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Do you have a suggestion for an #ifdef /#endif to
remove the problem you mention ?

	cheers
	luigi

On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 08:50:19PM +0300, Maxim Konovalov wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> After this commit 'device ether' is mandatory if ever there is no any
> ethernet or token-ring devices.
> 
> | luigi       2002/02/18 14:50:13 PST
> |
> |  Modified files:
> |    sys/net              if.c
> |  Log:
> |  When the local link address is changed, send out gratuitous ARPs
> |  to notify other nodes about the address change. Otherwise, they
> |  might try and keep using the old address until their arp table
> |  entry times out and the address is refreshed.
> |
> |  Maybe this ought to be done for INET6 addresses as well but i have
> |  no idea how to do it. It should be pretty straightforward though.
> |
> |  MFC-after: 10 days
> |
> |  Revision  Changes    Path
> |  1.128     +11 -0     src/sys/net/if.c
> 
> -- 
> Maxim Konovalov, MAcomnet, Internet-Intranet Dept., system engineer
> phone: +7 (095) 796-9079, mailto:maxim@macomnet.ru
> 

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