netdev - Re: [PATCH net V2] Exempt multicast addresses from five-second neighbor lifetime

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Message-ID: <20201110080325.2f67d85d@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com>
Date:   Tue, 10 Nov 2020 08:03:25 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Jeff Dike <jdike@...mai.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>,
        Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...dia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net V2] Exempt multicast addresses from five-second
 neighbor lifetime

On Tue, 10 Nov 2020 09:21:53 -0500 Jeff Dike wrote:
> > Perhaps it would make sense to widen the API to any "computed" address
> > rather than implicitly depending on this behavior for mcast?  
> 
> I'm happy to do that, but I don't know of any other types of
> addresses which are computed and end up in the neighbors table.

Fair point, thinking about it again only mcast or local addresses 
could be computed but I never heard of local addresses being used
like that, so you can stick to what you have.