<<On Thu, 16 Aug 2001 10:08:30 -0300, "Daniel C. Sobral" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
said:
> Another question... when the interface goes up and an RTM_INFO message
> is generated, shouldn't the interface addresses be passed?
No; there is enough information in the RTM_IFINFO message for a
listener to determine which interface is being referred to. At least
on my machine it is in any case almost immediately preceded by an
RTM_NEWADDR:
# first we see the address being restored...
got message of size 116 on Thu Aug 16 12:49:52 2001
RTM_NEWADDR: address being added to iface: len 116, metric 0, flags:<CLONING>
sockaddrs: <NETMASK,IFP,IFA,BRD>
(0) 0 ffff ff fxp0:0.d0.b7.54.3e.d3 khavrinen 18.24.4.255
# then the network route is added back...
got message of size 172 on Thu Aug 16 12:49:52 2001
RTM_ADD: Add Route: len 172, pid: 0, seq 0, errno 0, flags:<UP,CLONING>
locks: inits:
sockaddrs: <DST,GATEWAY,NETMASK>
18.24.4.0 (255) ffff ffff ff
# and now our interface comes back up
got message of size 96 on Thu Aug 16 12:49:52 2001
RTM_IFINFO: iface status change: len 96, if# 1, flags:<UP,BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST>
-GAWollman
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