Re: 2.4.21+ - IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling b0rked

Pekka Savola
2003-07-11T09:51:18Z

On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / [iso-2022-jp] ^[$B5HF#1QL@^[(B wrote:
> In article <Pine.LNX.4.44.0307111143470.26262-100000@netcore.fi> (at Fri, 11 Jul 2003 11:46:00 +0300 (EEST)), Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi> says:
> > > I don't like this
> > > while I would be ok to have configuration option
> > > not to support anycast.
> >
> > With "not to support anycast" you probably meant "not to support
> > subnet-router anycast address [automatically, in the kernel, as now]" ?
> > These are entirely different things.
>
> I meant disabling anycast entirely.

Oh, I'm not advocating that; however, being able to turn off the subnet
router anycast address might be a plus.

> > (Note that if there's a user-level API for setting anycast addresses, one
> > could kick the subnet-router anycast address out of the kernel too.
> > Whether that's desirable is another thing.)
>
> We have but we cannot; it is refcnt'ed.

I don't understand what you mean. Refcnt'ed by a userland process, so
that if you'd want the subnet-router anycast address, the whole time a
process (like radvd) should be running.. or what?

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