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Message-Id: <20130322.103135.962113441677649820.davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 10:31:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To: tgraf@...g.ch
Cc: swhiteho@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
linux-decnet-user@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] decnet: Parse netlink attributes on our
own
From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 14:27:35 +0000
> On 03/21/13 at 06:04pm, Steven Whitehouse wrote:
>> You shouldn't need any special hardware to test this. A copy of iproute2
>> should be enough as you should be able to use that to create an
>> interface or two and a route between them, etc. Although DECnet routing
>> works in a different way to ip routing, the Linux implementation tries
>> to stick fairly closely to the ip way of doing things whenever it can in
>> order to share infrastructure. Now that ip has diverged a fair bit over
>> time that isn't quite as true as it was, but there shouldn't be anything
>> too surprising in there.
>
> Alright, I did some basic testing with iproute2. I do not claim
> to understand what I did but I ran the following:
>
> $ ip -f dnet route add 1.661 dev em1
> $ ip -f dnet route list
> 1.661 dev em1 scope link
>
> $ ip -f dnet neigh add 6.662 dev em1
> $ ip -f dnet neigh list
> 6.662 dev em1 lladdr aa:00:04:00:96:1a PERMANENT
>
> $ ip -f dnet addr add 1.111 dev em1
> $ ip -f dnet addr list
> 2: em1: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state DOWN qlen 1000
> dnet 1.111/16 scope global em1
That's good enough for me, both patches applied, thanks Thomas!
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