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On Thu, Jun 12, 2008, Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Eventially the changes settled down, and for the past few years they
> have been very infrequent. But the problem that the interface isn't
> really extendable and that when changes are made kernel and ipvsadm
> versions need to be incremented together remains. For instance, the
> Debian package of ipvsadm actually shipps three different ipvsadm
> binaries, and a wrapper works out which one to use based on the kernel
> version.
Ugh.
> I wonder if now would be a good time to bite the bullet and design
> a new interface that is extendable.
If we really have to break it once for IPv6 anyways, it seems like a
good opportunity. Depends on how invasive the changes would need to
be, of course...
You probably already have some ideas on what a better interface would
look like? Especially, how to design it for future backwards
compatibility? And would it still use sockopts or rather one of the
other communication mechanisms?
Julius
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