Re: SIOCSIFADDR with AF_LINK

[David Young <dyoung%pobox.com@localhost>]

On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 05:01:57PM -0500, David Young wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 04:35:53PM -0400, Sean Boudreau wrote:
> > 
> > Hi:
> > 
> > Is this supposed to work?  I see that ether_ioctl
> > (for example) has been switched to the new
> > if_set_sadl() but I see no way that this code can
> > be tickled.  Am I missing something?
> 
> That was step 1 of N. :-/ I added if_set_sadl(), I started to clean up
> the mess that is network-interface ioctls, and then I got side-tracked.
> I will look at it again, tonight.

I have finished the kernel part and tested with a tiny utility that I
wrote for the purpose.  I will send patches later today.

I haven't touched ifconfig(8), yet.  I still feel a bit dizzy after
looking at the source the other night.

Dave

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