[radvd-devel-l] radvd for NetBSD/KAME-current

Pekka Savola radvd-devel-l@litech.org
Sat, 22 Jun 2002 21:14:38 +0300 (EEST)


On Sat, 22 Jun 2002, Nathan Lutchansky wrote:
> > 2) Opinions whether the attached kind of approach would be too confusing 
> > (Nathan?) -- this would limit the need for ifdefs in the code.
> 
> I think it's fine with the ifdefs.  It's not like open_icmpv6_socket() has 
> any complex control logic.  Plus, I would expect that entire function to 
> be loaded with platform-specific logic, due to the numerous revs that RFC 
> 2292 has gone through.  -Nathan

Do you mean the original approach?  As the longterm setting is probably
with RECV, I think for simplicity the approach I used might be better
(conceptually backward-compatibility [autoconf-like] not compatibility
with two different approaches)?

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