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Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 22:20:30 +1000 From: Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au> To: Julius Volz <juliusv@...gle.com> Cc: lvs-devel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, kaber@...sh.net, vbusam@...gle.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] IPVS: Move userspace definitions to include/linux/ip_vs.h On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 01:24:35PM +0200, Julius Volz wrote: > On Wed, Jul 9, 2008, Simon Horman wrote: > > Firstly these changes look fine: Acked > > Thanks! > > > Secondly, What are your plans for ipvsadm? Do you think that a fork will > > be neccessasry to utilise the netlink interface? Or even a new tool with > > a completely new name? > > Vince is converting the latest available ipvsadm version to support > the Netlink interface and IPv6 features. So ideally, there will be no > fork or new tool, just a new version. We are keeping the old sockopt > interface in the kernel for userspace backwards compatibility, so > people will only need the new ipvsadm version if they need the new > features. The way Vince is currently implementing it, the new ipvsadm > will probably also keep supporting the sockopt interface as a > fallback, which would mean full backwards compatibility in both > directions. That sounds great. > As for the kernel part, I'm planning to post the Netlink interface > implementation (with minimal stubs for IPv6 support) sometime the next > days. -- Horms -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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