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On Mar 12, 2010, at 6:56 PM, Qing Li wrote:

> Right now I like to implement Robert's suggestion of using =
if_capabilities
> field. I'd like to create a new flag, IFCAP_LINKSTATE_NOTIFY flag.
> The routing decision will check against the if_link_state if this bit
> is set.
>=20
> Only a handful of drivers have this capability. So updating those =
drivers
> is a small task.
>=20
> Do we agree on this approach?

I'm good with this approach -- do you mind going with IFCAP_LINKSTATE or =
something similarly a bit shorter? Most of the other capability names =
are pretty short, and it will prevent the display in ifconfig from =
growing too much as the capability will be common.

Thanks!

Robert=