From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: pekkas@netcore.fi
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, sega01@gmail.com
Subject: Re: net.ipv6.conf.INT.accept_ra_rt_info_max_plen defaults to 0
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:36:16 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090202.213616.258001767.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.2.00.0902030632240.7583@netcore.fi>
From: Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 06:38:49 +0200 (EET)
> As reported and discussed below and in
> <http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-ipv6@lists.debian.org/msg03753.html>,
> to accept "route information option" on Linux, you have to manually
> change accept_ra_rt_info_max_plen sysctl value. Other
> implementations that I know of accept this by default.
>
> Is it intentional that Route Information options are ignored by default?
>
> I suspect not -- if so, the default value should be (IMHO) 64 or if
> that's disagreeable, 48.
>
> Even if this is intentional, I think the intentions should be revisited.
It looks very intentional, both via the code and it's documentation
in ip-sysctl.txt
It seems that it is disabled like this by default when
accept_ra_rtr_pref is enabled, and that seems pretty reasonable to me.
I'm sure whoever made that decision didn't do so on a whim and had
a very good reason for it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-03 5:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-03 4:38 net.ipv6.conf.INT.accept_ra_rt_info_max_plen defaults to 0 Pekka Savola
2009-02-03 5:36 ` David Miller [this message]
2009-02-15 14:05 ` Teran McKinney
2009-02-16 6:31 ` Pekka Savola
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