From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ang Way Chuang Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] bridge: leave carrier on for empty bridge Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2011 04:02:12 +0900 Message-ID: <4E651CB4.3070707@sfc.wide.ad.jp> References: <20110902172220.830228928@vyatta.com> <20110902172247.396753508@vyatta.com> <4E614CF7.7030700@gmail.com> <20110902151100.327af0bf@nehalam.ftrdhcpuser.net> <4E6272BC.4020707@gmail.com> <20110903211438.2a43d2f2@nehalam.ftrdhcpuser.net> <4E632A2E.5040805@gmail.com> <20110904093634.685d7c56@nehalam.ftrdhcpuser.net> <4E65046E.1020005@gmail.com> <20110905105735.1b912715@nehalam.ftrdhcpuser.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Nicolas_de_Peslo=FCan?= , "David S. Miller" , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Stephen Hemminger Return-path: Received: from shonan.sfc.wide.ad.jp ([203.178.142.130]:50918 "EHLO mail.sfc.wide.ad.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751651Ab1IETCO (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Sep 2011 15:02:14 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20110905105735.1b912715@nehalam.ftrdhcpuser.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 06/09/11 02:57, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > The root cause of the problem is applications that don't deal with unresolved > IPv6 addresses. I already had to solve this in our distribution for NTP in a > not bridge related problem. It is better to fix the applications to understand > IPv6 address semantics than to try and force bridge to behave in a way that > is friendly to these applications. Care to share the patch that you did for NTP? Perhaps, I may apply the same trick and tried it out on dnsmasq and radvd if I have time. Thanks. > > The earlier mail said it is a problem with dnsmasq and radvd. Let's work on understanding > if they need to be updated before jumping in with hacks to the bridge code. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >