From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Milos Vyletel <milos.vyletel@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [patch net-next 3/5] ipv6: consider net.ipv6.conf.all sysctls when making decisions
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 10:13:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140610101334.565bc484@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1402417153-2551-4-git-send-email-milos.vyletel@gmail.com>
On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 12:19:11 -0400
Milos Vyletel <milos.vyletel@gmail.com> wrote:
> As it is right now net.ipv6.conf.all.* are mostly ignored and instead
> we're only making decisions based on interface specific settings. These
> settings are coppied from net.ipv6.conf.default and changing either all
> or default settings have no effect.
Although this is the right idea conceptually, it risks creating unhappy
users because it changes the semantics of the API. This will probably break
somebody's configuration.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-10 17:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2014-06-10 16:19 ` [patch net-next 1/5] ipv6: align sysctl table creation code with ipv4 Milos Vyletel
2014-06-10 16:19 ` [patch net-next 2/5] ipv6: rename DEVCONF* to IPV6_DEVCONF* to align " Milos Vyletel
2014-06-10 16:19 ` [patch net-next 3/5] ipv6: consider net.ipv6.conf.all sysctls when making decisions Milos Vyletel
2014-06-10 17:13 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2014-06-10 17:49 ` Milos Vyletel
2014-06-11 22:32 ` David Miller
2014-06-12 15:07 ` Milos Vyletel
2014-06-10 17:15 ` Florent Fourcot
2014-06-10 17:42 ` Milos Vyletel
2014-06-10 16:19 ` [patch net-next 4/5] Documentation: update ipv6 part of networking/ip-sysctl.txt Milos Vyletel
2014-06-10 16:19 ` [patch net-next 5/5] ipv6: copy default config values to interfaces Milos Vyletel
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