From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754501AbbJPQOx (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Oct 2015 12:14:53 -0400 Received: from mail-io0-f171.google.com ([209.85.223.171]:33681 "EHLO mail-io0-f171.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754408AbbJPQO1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Oct 2015 12:14:27 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv6: no addrconf for slave devices To: Jan Blunck References: <1444990911-27458-1-git-send-email-jblunck@infradead.org> <20151016115457.GE2194@nanopsycho.orion> <56211FA7.6020107@cumulusnetworks.com> Cc: Jiri Pirko , davem@davemloft.net, Alexey Kuznetsov , jmorris@namei.org, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, Patrick McHardy , netdev@vger.kernel.org, LKML , fubar@us.ibm.com From: David Ahern Message-ID: <56212256.8090704@cumulusnetworks.com> Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 10:14:14 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 10/16/15 10:12 AM, Jan Blunck wrote: > On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 6:02 PM, David Ahern wrote: >> On 10/16/15 9:57 AM, Jan Blunck wrote: >>> >>> >>> I don't think that enslaved ports should get network layer addresses. >>> This is one example with a team device: >> >> >> for VRF devices we do want the enslaved links to have link local addresses. >> > > That is interesting. As far I can see you are setting IFF_SLAVE in > do_vrf_add_slave() and therefore already stop IPv6 addrconf. > Check net-next. That had to be removed to get IPv6 working.