On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 09:01:12PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > If the device looks like a duck (Ethernet), then why does it need > a separate ARP type. There are other tools that might work without > modification if it just fully pretended to be an ether device.
This solves the problem of getting a list of all EtherIP devices. If they use ARPHRD_ETHER and use an ioctl in the SIOCDEVPRIVATE space is not a save way (not even if the ioctl uses ethip0, this device could be owned by another driver if EtherIP is not present). On the other hand, a new ARP type opens a lot of new problems. A lot of userspace tools and libraries must be changed. So this solutions is not perfect. Cheers, Joerg - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
