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From: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org, jbohac@suse.cz,
	benoit.boissinot@ens-lyon.org, davem@davemloft.net,
	hideaki.yoshifuji@miraclelinux.com, dsahern@kernel.org,
	pabeni@redhat.com, kuba@kernel.org
Cc: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next v2 4/4] Documentation: networking: explain what happens if temp_prefered_lft is too small or too large
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2023 15:23:10 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20231024212312.299370-5-alexhenrie24@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231024212312.299370-1-alexhenrie24@gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
index 6134ff4561e8..4dfe0d9a57bb 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
@@ -2509,7 +2509,11 @@ temp_valid_lft - INTEGER
 	Default: 172800 (2 days)
 
 temp_prefered_lft - INTEGER
-	Preferred lifetime (in seconds) for temporary addresses.
+	Preferred lifetime (in seconds) for temporary addresses. If
+	temp_prefered_lft is less than the minimum required lifetime (typically
+	5 seconds), the preferred lifetime is the minimum required. If
+	temp_prefered_lft is greater than temp_valid_lft, the preferred lifetime
+	is temp_valid_lft.
 
 	Default: 86400 (1 day)
 
-- 
2.42.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-10-24 21:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-10-24 21:23 [PATCH net-next v2 0/4] net: ipv6/addrconf: ensure that temporary addresses' preferred lifetimes are in the valid range Alex Henrie
2023-10-24 21:23 ` [PATCH net-next v2 1/4] net: ipv6/addrconf: clamp preferred_lft to the maximum allowed Alex Henrie
2023-10-25 12:23   ` Jiri Pirko
2023-10-25 16:28     ` Alex Henrie
2023-10-26  5:11       ` Jiri Pirko
2023-10-26  0:41   ` David Ahern
2023-10-24 21:23 ` [PATCH net-next v2 2/4] net: ipv6/addrconf: clamp preferred_lft to the minimum required Alex Henrie
2023-10-25 12:25   ` Jiri Pirko
2023-10-26  0:43   ` David Ahern
2023-10-24 21:23 ` [PATCH net-next v2 3/4] Documentation: networking: explain what happens if temp_valid_lft is too small Alex Henrie
2023-10-26  0:43   ` David Ahern
2023-10-24 21:23 ` Alex Henrie [this message]
2023-10-26  0:44   ` [PATCH net-next v2 4/4] Documentation: networking: explain what happens if temp_prefered_lft is too small or too large David Ahern
2023-10-26  1:30 ` [PATCH net-next v2 0/4] net: ipv6/addrconf: ensure that temporary addresses' preferred lifetimes are in the valid range patchwork-bot+netdevbpf

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