[Linux-ha-dev] [PATCH] IPv6 HBcomm plugin

[Keisuke MORI]

Hi,

Dejan Muhamedagic <dejanmm at fastmail.fm> writes:

> Hi Keisuke-san,
>
> On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 06:04:58PM +0900, Keisuke MORI wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I've been implementing HBcomm plugin to enable IPv6
>> communication among the cluster nodes and the ping nodes.
>> 
>> It is still an experimental implementation and
>> I would appreciate on any feedback.
>
> One quick question: Why did you create a new plugin instead of
> extending the existing ones with IPv6 capabilities?
>

Well, no big reasons but

 - I wanted to preserve the old code untouched for the stability.
 - It would have many if/cases to sepalete AF_INET/AF_INET6 codes,
   particularly in the ping code.
   (the ping6 command exists with the same reason, IIRC)

so I thought that it's not a bad idea to sepalate them at the plugin level.
It's not necessarily so, of course.

Thanks,

Keisuke MORI
NTT DATA Intellilink Corporation