Subject: Re: Patch to change ethernet link addresses
To: None <dheeraj@ece.gatech.edu>
From: None <itojun@iijlab.net>
List: current-users
Date: 08/11/2003 13:14:37
>   i believe you mean SIOCDLIFADDR and SIOCALIFADDR respectively. but won't
>the former break the semantics too ??  as was indicated in
>http://www.geocrawler.com/mail/msg.php3?msg_id=6844168&list=465
> in fact i asked the same/similar question a week or so ago and there were
>no comments.
>  So you mean i should issue  SIOCDLIFADDR in ifconfig (userland) and then
>issue another ioctl with SIOCALIFADDR (in if.c) when handling SIOCDLIFADDR ??
>
>of course i shall try to change the code to use AF_LINK sockaddr .

	yes, please issue two ioctls, "D"elete then "A"dd.

itojun