From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: jbohac@suse.cz
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: ipv6: why disable ipv6 on last address removal?
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:56:11 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091208.125611.135547597.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091208192046.GA5649@midget.suse.cz>
From: Jiri Bohac <jbohac@suse.cz>
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 20:20:46 +0100
> Is there any reason why inet6_addr_del needs to sets how=1 and
> disable IPv6 even more than "ifconfig down" does?
All I can say is that this behavior is definitely on purpose, although
I don't exactly remember why.
And although it helps you, it could also break things for other people
who expect the current behavior.
Some people definitely expect no IPV6 at all in any way shape or
form if they have not assigned IPV6 addresses to an interface.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-08 20:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-08 19:20 ipv6: why disable ipv6 on last address removal? Jiri Bohac
2009-12-08 20:56 ` David Miller [this message]
2009-12-09 7:18 ` Jiri Bohac
2009-12-09 7:39 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
2010-01-05 6:44 ` David Miller
2010-02-16 15:28 ` Jiri Bohac
2011-01-23 9:47 ` Stephen Hemminger
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