From: Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de>
To: Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
jbeulich@suse.de
Subject: Re: [RFC IPv6] Disabling IPv6 autoconf
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 13:10:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060829111053.GL1201@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0608291348520.25442@netcore.fi>
On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 01:55:28PM +0300, Pekka Savola wrote:
> It's not obvious that IFF_MULTICAST is good enough. IMHO, you should
> be able to run addrconf on non-multicast interfaces as well (e.g.,
> point-to-point interfaces, tunnels in particular).
So would it work to use this?
(flags & (IFF_MULTICAST|IFF_POINTOPOINT)) == 0
> It seems that current code already excludes IFF_NOARP interfaces
> though.
I looked at that - it doesn't help because it just disables DAD, but
still does router solicitation, and I think it also sends a MLD listener
report with the bogus link-layer address. I tend to agree that it's
incorrect to assign an address at all in this case.
Olaf
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-29 11:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-29 8:24 [RFC IPv6] Disabling IPv6 autoconf Olaf Kirch
2006-08-29 9:34 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2006-08-29 9:54 ` David Miller
2006-08-29 10:39 ` Herbert Xu
2006-08-29 10:45 ` Olaf Kirch
2006-08-29 10:55 ` Pekka Savola
2006-08-29 11:10 ` Olaf Kirch [this message]
2006-08-29 11:13 ` Peter Bieringer
2006-08-29 16:30 ` Alexey Kuznetsov
2006-08-29 10:44 ` Olaf Kirch
2006-08-29 15:51 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-08-29 11:21 ` Hasso Tepper
2006-08-29 11:31 ` Peter Bieringer
2006-08-29 13:04 ` Herbert Xu
2006-08-29 13:59 ` Hasso Tepper
2006-08-30 0:12 ` Herbert Xu
2006-08-30 3:26 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2006-08-30 5:41 ` Hasso Tepper
2006-08-29 18:10 ` Thomas Graf
2006-08-29 20:00 ` Olaf Kirch
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