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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: andi@collax.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv6: Do not use routes from locally generated RAs
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 18:37:15 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111024.183715.460582802706449552.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1319388071-21323-1-git-send-email-andi@collax.com>

From: Andreas Hofmeister <andi@collax.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 18:41:11 +0200

> When hybrid mode is enabled (accept_ra == 2), the kernel also sees RAs
> generated locally. This is useful since it allows the kernel to auto-configure
> its own interface addresses.
> 
> However, if 'accept_ra_defrtr' and/or 'accept_ra_rtr_pref' are set and the
> locally generated RAs announce the default route and/or other route information,
> the kernel happily inserts bogus routes with its own address as gateway.
> 
> With this patch, adding routes from an RA will be skiped when the RAs source
> address matches any local address, just as if 'accept_ra_defrtr' and
> 'accept_ra_rtr_pref' were set to 0.

Please make a fresh full resubmission of this patch and add an
appropriate Signed-off-by: tag to your commit message.

Thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-24 22:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-23 16:41 [PATCH] ipv6: Do not use routes from locally generated RAs Andreas Hofmeister
2011-10-24 22:37 ` David Miller [this message]
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2011-10-24 23:09 Andreas Hofmeister
2011-10-24 23:13 ` David Miller

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