Hi Kazunori-san,

Eventhough I know that backward compatibility with Linux-HA v1 may not be the 
most important issue, is your modification compatible with v1 ? In other words, 
how can a v1 user declare the 'nic' to be used for IPv6 addresses ?

For IPv4, a v1 user had to declare its IP address as follows: 
<ip>/<prefix-len>/<interface> (ex: 135.9.8.7/24/eth0).

Now, would it be possible to declare IPv6 addresses in the same way ?
 Ex: IPv6addr::3ffe:1111:2222:3333:4444:5556:6666:7777/64/eth0

That's what was done in the patch I proposed a few months ago (the patch you 
link to in your mail). Unfortunately, it appeared that my patch was too 'v1 
oriented' ;) and Dejan asked me to add v2 support before re-submitting it. I 
had a look at what to do for this, without success (I'm quite a newbie about 
Linux-HA). Without more time to devote on this issue, I put it aside. I'm glad 
you raised the issue again ;). Now, I would be very thankful if your patch 
could fix this problem for v1 users too (unless it does it already). Maybe a 
solution could be to allow both ways to add the 'nic': via the parameter 'nic' 
or by appending it at the end the IPv6 address string. What do you think ?

Thanks and regards

Pascal ANDRE


> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
> Kazunori INOUE
> Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 2:54 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: [Linux-ha-dev] [PATCH] IPv6addr: Support a parameter
> to specify interface name
>
> Hi lists,
>
> I implemented a function to IPv6addr.
> I'd like to explain the role of attached patch.
> It's for changeset:cf020d609b57.
> And it's to add a new parameter "nic" to specify interface.
> I referred to Dejan's opinion
> (http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linuxha/dev/55234).
>
> I would like to hear your opinions.
>
> Best Regards,
> Kazunori INOUE
>
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