From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: shemminger@vyatta.com, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] IPV6: remove addresses and routes when carrier is lost
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:28:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48457F35.5060801@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080603.102501.193702820.davem@davemloft.net>
David Miller wrote:
> From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
> Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 10:21:44 -0700
>
>> The patch just makes carrier_off respond the same as doing 'ip link set dev eth0 down'
>> (or ifconfig eth0 down). A router needs to be able to re-route when link fails.
>
> But I can't see how this behavior makes sense for the normal desktop case
> and it disagrees with existing practice for many years.
>
> If I pull out my network cable while making some adjustments in my
> rack, and then plug it back in, I don't expect to lose my static
> routes on that interface.
>
> That doesn't make any sense at all.
Maybe the logic to disable those routes should simply live in
the routing daemons or a seperate daemon.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-03 17:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-02 23:52 [PATCH 1/2] IPV4: remove addresses and routes when carrier is lost Stephen Hemminger
2008-06-02 23:53 ` [PATCH 1/2] IPV6: " Stephen Hemminger
2008-06-03 16:17 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2008-06-03 17:21 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-06-03 17:25 ` David Miller
2008-06-03 17:28 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2008-06-03 17:31 ` David Miller
2008-06-03 17:28 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2008-06-03 17:30 ` David Miller
2008-06-03 17:46 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-06-03 17:53 ` David Miller
2008-06-03 18:34 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-06-03 19:06 ` David Miller
2008-06-03 21:40 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-06-03 15:05 ` [PATCH 1/2] IPV4: " Lennart Sorensen
2008-06-03 15:57 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-06-03 16:03 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-06-03 16:31 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-06-03 16:44 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-06-03 21:45 ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-06-03 22:32 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-06-04 13:53 ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-06-03 21:44 ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-06-06 14:56 ` Lennart Sorensen
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