Re: [PATCHSET] Mobile IPv6 for 2.5.43

Ville Nuorvala (vnuorval@morphine.tml.hut.fi)
Fri, 18 Oct 2002 02:52:48 +0300 (EEST)


On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / [iso-2022-jp] 吉藤英明 wrote:

> In article <20021017162624.GC16370@morphine.tml.hut.fi> (at Thu, 17 Oct 2002 19:26:25 +0300), Antti Tuominen <ajtuomin@morphine.tml.hut.fi> says:
>
> [ipv6_tunnel]
>
> I think this is almost ok.
>
> 1. I believe s/ARPHRD_IPV6_IPV6_TUNNEL/ARPHRD_TUNNEL6/.

Ok by me! The comment of course says IPIP6 tunnel at the moment, but the
constant itself doesn't appear to be used anywhere.

> 2. Please put outer address to hardware address in dev.

The reason I haven't done this is that MAX_ADDR_LEN is just 8. Does anyone
have any objections against changing the value to 16?

> Note: you need to modify SIOxxx ioctls too not to overrun!

Sorry, I'm not that familiar with ioctls, I just copied the basic
functionality from sit.c. Could you explain it a bit more thoroughly, so
even I with my thick skull understand what the problem is?

-Ville

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Ville Nuorvala
Research Assistant, Institute of Digital Communications,
Helsinki University of Technology
email: vnuorval@tml.hut.fi, phone: +358 (0)9 451 5257

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