From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
To: Hasso Tepper <hasso@estpak.ee>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: /proc/sys/net/ipv[46]/conf/ issue unsolved
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 09:02:24 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070213090224.2826859f@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200702131529.04708.hasso@estpak.ee>
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:29:04 +0200
Hasso Tepper <hasso@estpak.ee> wrote:
> There is long standing issue in kernel which makes using /etc/sysctl.conf
> useless for boottime configuration of specific interface properties and
> breaks probably any software relying on unconditional existence of the
> conf trees like it was in previous kernels (I alone have written several
> pieces of such software). It's broken AFAIK from 2.6.15. There has been
> several notes about issue in the list, but issue haven't got any (at least
> efficient) attention from developers.
>
> The current behaviour bites users in many ways and breaks several use cases.
> I asked several times in the past "what I should do now?" question, but
> got no clear answer.
>
> References:
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdev&m=115685059625467&w=2
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdev&m=115690828822486&w=2
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=169809
>
> Is there any chance this will be fixed or at least clear position is
> taken by developers? Breaking userspace applications is declared nonono
> several times in the past ... I'm not even against breaking it if there
> is _very_ good reason to do it. Ok, but I want to know how userspace is
> meant to behave now. I can't continue using crappy workarounds.
As Herbert Xu said:
> You can disable it in /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/default/... and then
> reenable it on the interfaces that you actually want.
And Xen is broken because it tries to use the same bogus Mac
address on on all pseudo devices.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-13 17:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-13 13:29 /proc/sys/net/ipv[46]/conf/ issue unsolved Hasso Tepper
2007-02-13 17:02 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2007-02-13 18:04 ` Vlad Yasevich
2007-02-13 18:07 ` Hugo Santos
2007-02-13 20:16 ` Hasso Tepper
2007-02-13 18:58 ` Neil Horman
2007-02-13 19:24 ` Hugo Santos
2007-02-13 19:45 ` Neil Horman
2007-02-13 19:49 ` Hugo Santos
2007-02-13 20:10 ` Neil Horman
2007-02-13 20:18 ` Hugo Santos
2007-02-13 20:29 ` Hasso Tepper
2007-02-13 19:43 ` Vlad Yasevich
2007-02-13 20:15 ` Neil Horman
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