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From: Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@gmail.com>
To: "François-Xavier Le Bail" <fx.lebail@yahoo.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net,
	yasushi.asano@jp.fujitsu.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ipv6: add link-local, sit and loopback address with INFINITY_LIFE_TIME
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 17:12:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140108161243.GA3694@brouette> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140108144322.GJ9007@order.stressinduktion.org>

* Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> [2014-01-08 15:43]:
> In the past the IFA_PERMANENT flag indicated, that the valid and preferred
> lifetime where ignored. Since change fad8da3e085ddf ("ipv6 addrconf: fix
> preferred lifetime state-changing behavior while valid_lft is infinity")
> we honour at least the preferred lifetime on those addresses. As such
> the valid lifetime gets recalculated and updated to 0.

> If loopback address is added manually this problem does not occur.
> Also if NetworkManager manages IPv6, those addresses will get added via
> inet6_rtm_newaddr and thus will have a correct lifetime, too.

I confirm this patch (on top of 3.13-rc7+) fixes the problem on my
system, eth0 has a LLA adress again after boot and ::1 is back on the
loopback interface.

Thanks for the quick fix!

-- 
Damien Wyart

  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-08 16:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-08 13:02 IPv6: Bug in net-next François-Xavier Le Bail
2014-01-08 13:18 ` François-Xavier Le Bail
2014-01-08 13:35   ` François-Xavier Le Bail
2014-01-08 13:54     ` Damien Wyart
2014-01-08 14:04     ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-01-08 14:13       ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-01-08 14:43 ` [PATCH net] ipv6: add link-local, sit and loopback address with INFINITY_LIFE_TIME Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-01-08 16:12   ` Damien Wyart [this message]
2014-01-10  4:09   ` David Miller

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