Re: sysctls below net.ipv[46].conf.all not working as expected

["Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>]

Hello again,

On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 05:06:07PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> I did the following:
> 
> 	cassiopeia:~# sysctl net.ipv6.conf.all.use_tempaddr
> 	net.ipv6.conf.all.use_tempaddr = 0
> 
> 	cassiopeia:~# sysctl net.ipv6.conf.eth0.use_tempaddr
> 	net.ipv6.conf.eth0.use_tempaddr = 0
> 
> 	cassiopeia:~# sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.all.use_tempaddr=1
> 	net.ipv6.conf.all.use_tempaddr = 1
> 
> 	cassiopeia:~# sysctl net.ipv6.conf.all.use_tempaddr
> 	net.ipv6.conf.all.use_tempaddr = 1
> 
> 	cassiopeia:~# sysctl net.ipv6.conf.eth0.use_tempaddr
> 	net.ipv6.conf.eth0.use_tempaddr = 0
> 
> Here I would have expected that eth0's use_tempaddr is 1, too.  The
> problem is not that this entry isn't writeable:
> 
> 	cassiopeia:~# sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.eth0.use_tempaddr=1
> 	net.ipv6.conf.eth0.use_tempaddr = 1
> 
> 	cassiopeia:~# sysctl net.ipv6.conf.eth0.use_tempaddr
> 	net.ipv6.conf.eth0.use_tempaddr = 1
> 
> I got the same results when using net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter (and
> net.ipv4.conf.eth0.rp_filter resp.)
> 
> Is this a bug or just my failure to see how conf/all works?
I put the following in my /etc/sysctl.conf:

	net.ipv6.conf.default.use_tempaddr = 1
	net.ipv6.conf.all.use_tempaddr = 1
	net.ipv6.conf.eth0.use_tempaddr = 1

and after a reboot eth0 got a temporary dynamic address, eth1 did not.
So it doesn't seem to be as guessed by someone on #debian-kernel that
the setting works but isn't propagated back to the sysctl of the
interface.

This makes me wonder how useful the lines

	net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 1
	net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter = 1

(suggested by the Debian package netbase) are.

Best regards
Uwe

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