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.
next prev 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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