Re: CVS commit: src/sys/net

[Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost>]

On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 20:35 -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
> "Roy Marples" <roy%netbsd.org@localhost> writes:
> 
> > Module Name:        src
> > Committed By:       roy
> > Date:               Fri Nov 12 16:30:27 UTC 2010
> >
> > Modified Files:
> >     src/sys/net: link_proto.c route.h rtsock.c
> >
> > Log Message:
> > Add RTM_CHGADDR to signal that an address on the interface has changed.
> > This is mainly used for notifying userland about active link address 
> > changes.
> 
> Is there an IETF draft or some other precedent in BSD for this?  I'm not
> objecting, but I haven't seen any discussion, and there were no
> documentation files changed.

There was discussion between myself and David Young about it. He
proposed it.
Other OS's force the interface down then up when changing link layer
address, we don't and a such need a way to notify userland about such
changes.

Thanks

Roy