From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 24 5:21:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from iguana.icir.org (iguana.icir.org [192.150.187.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06EED37B435 for ; Sun, 24 Mar 2002 05:21:01 -0800 (PST) Received: (from rizzo@localhost) by iguana.icir.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) id g2ODKuH87499; Sun, 24 Mar 2002 05:20:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rizzo) Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 05:20:56 -0800 From: Luigi Rizzo To: Maxim Konovalov Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: is 'device ether' mandatory now? Message-ID: <20020324052056.B87371@iguana.icir.org> References: <20020323204359.Y10340-100000@news1.macomnet.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020323204359.Y10340-100000@news1.macomnet.ru> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message