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Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2016 10:41:11 +1100 From: Stephen Hemminger <shemming@...cade.com> To: Patrick Ruddy <pruddy@...cade.com> CC: "jiri@...nulli.us" <jiri@...nulli.us>, "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, David Stapleton <dstaplet@...cade.com>, "Olufemi Komolafe" <okomolaf@...cade.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Netlink messages for multicast HW addr programming On Wed, 3 Feb 2016 06:14:41 -0800 Patrick Ruddy <pruddy@...cade.com> wrote: > One more Q on this. I can use IFA_ADDRESS for unicast addresses and > IFA_MULTICAST for multicast addresses but are these distinctions > actually required since the multicast nature of an address is clear from > the address itself - at least it is for ethernet and ifininet? The flags on L2 addresses should be analagous to what happens with L3 (IP) addresses.
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