14 Apr
2018
14 Apr
'18
9:20 a.m.
On Samstag, 14. April 2018 10:11:28 CEST Antonio Quartulli wrote:
An error message like like "returned invalid all-zero mac address" (or "multicast address") might help to distinguish similar "ambiguities" in the future. No?
The current interface for the translation is "give me a string and I return NULL or a mac address". The resolving of the IPs for hostnames and the check of the neighbor table are done on an "I take what I get first" approach. Your suggestion would involve a change of this interface and parsing of additional information and tracking of states to make sure that the "best" result is returned (or a special error state). This is nothing which I will implement now.
Should I drop the patch for now?
Kind regards, Sven