From: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com>
To: Alexander Clouter <alex@digriz.org.uk>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IPv6: Change addrconf code to deal with link changes better
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 21:10:29 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C8AD705.10200@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40oql7-6f5.ln1@chipmunk.wormnet.eu>
On 09/10/2010 06:27 PM, Alexander Clouter wrote:
> Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com> wrote:
>>
>> [snipped]
>>
>> Change the IPv6 addrconf code to handle the case where the NIC link
>> state goes UP-DOWN-UP by removing all the autoconfigured addresses
>> when it goes down, so that when it comes back up they will get added
>> again and DAD will be triggered.
>>
> Surely this is going to result in me sending you lots of rude emails
> everytime cursing you when my SSH connections are terminated for no real
> reason on a link flap? Privacy addresses are handy on servers too such
> as DNS servers...
No, you'd be sending me some rude emails, I didn't test that particular
case, so Dave, don't apply this. I guess we've lived with it long enough
the way it is that dropping a few packets at initialization isn't *that*
bad. I'll see if I can figure out a better way in the meantime...
-Brian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-11 1:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-10 20:58 [PATCH] IPv6: Change addrconf code to deal with link changes better Brian Haley
2010-09-10 22:27 ` Alexander Clouter
2010-09-11 1:10 ` Brian Haley [this message]
2010-09-14 4:37 ` David Miller
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