Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 18:44:59 +0200 From: Fredrik Lindberg <fli+freebsd-current@shapeshifter.se> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Extending EVFILT_NETDEV to support ip-address changes Message-ID: <44C79C0B.6060900@shapeshifter.se> In-Reply-To: <44C68602.50105@elischer.org> References: <44C61470.3070005@shapeshifter.se> <20060725173924.GR96589@funkthat.com> <44C68602.50105@elischer.org>
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Julian Elischer wrote:
>
> I may be wrong but doesn't an address change already trigger a routing
> socket event?
>
Yes, a routing message is sent on address addition/removal, but
the point (as I noted in my first mail) was to avoid the routing
socket-read-parse dance and provide a lightweight and direct
(the routing socket broadcasts events about all interfaces) mechanism
for address addition/removal events.
Also, the NOTE_ADDR{NEW,DEL} are sent AFTER interface configuration is
complete, at least RTM_DELADDR is broadcasted before the ip-address
actually is removed from the interface because it's sent from the
routing code and not the interface configuration code.
Fredrik Lindberg
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