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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: brian.haley@hp.com
Cc: dlstevens@us.ibm.com, enh@google.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux kernel's IPV6_MULTICAST_HOPS default is 64; should be 1?
Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 14:46:47 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100504.144647.157477097.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BE031FA.6040006@hp.com>

From: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com>
Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 10:40:58 -0400

> Specifying -1 for setsockopt(IPV6_MULTICAST_HOPS) should set the socket
> value back to the system default value of IPV6_DEFAULT_MCASTHOPS (1).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com>

In cast it wasn't clear from my other reply, I'm not applying this
patch because I intentionally left this behavior there based upon
some comments from Elliot in that this lets developers get the
old default by asking for "-1" explicitly with a setsockopt.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-05-04 21:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-04  1:33 linux kernel's IPV6_MULTICAST_HOPS default is 64; should be 1? enh
2010-05-04  2:16 ` Brian Haley
2010-05-04  3:58   ` enh
2010-05-04  6:05   ` David Miller
2010-05-04  6:19     ` enh
2010-05-04  6:22       ` David Miller
2010-05-04  6:27         ` enh
2010-05-04  6:42           ` David Miller
2010-05-04  7:48           ` David Stevens
2010-05-04  7:57             ` David Miller
2010-05-04 14:40               ` Brian Haley
2010-05-04 16:12                 ` David Stevens
2010-05-04 16:43                   ` Brian Haley
2010-05-04 17:05                     ` David Stevens
2010-05-04 21:39                   ` David Miller
2010-05-04 21:38                 ` David Miller
2010-05-04 21:46                 ` David Miller [this message]
2010-05-04 22:26                   ` enh
2010-05-04 23:07                     ` David Miller
2010-05-05 15:36                   ` Brian Haley
2010-05-05 22:00                     ` David Miller
2010-05-06  1:50                       ` Brian Haley
2010-05-06  7:10                         ` David Miller

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