2016-03-23 14:52 GMT+03:00 Daniel P. Berrange <berrange(a)redhat.com>:
Ok, I took me a while to understand what the point of this is. I
eventually
found this comment in /usr/include/linux/if_addr.h
* IFA_ADDRESS is prefix address, rather than local interface address.
* It makes no difference for normally configured broadcast interfaces,
* but for point-to-point IFA_ADDRESS is DESTINATION address,
* local address is supplied in IFA_LOCAL attribute.
Likewise in ip-address(8) manpage
peer ADDRESS
the address of the remote endpoint for pointopoint inter‐
faces. Again, the ADDRESS may be followed by a slash and a
decimal number, encoding the network prefix length. If a
peer address is specified, the local address cannot have a
prefix length. The network prefix is associated with the
peer rather than with the local address.
So, if we accept ip, broader & route info, it makes sense that we also
accept a peer address.
Yes, and broadcast and peer (or remote) mutually exclusive.
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Vasiliy Tolstov,
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