From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv6: add special mode forwarding=2 to send RS while configured as router Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:43:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20100903.094334.91333726.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20100903130420.GB28460@bombadil.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@vger.kernel.org, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org To: tgraf@infradead.org Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:44229 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755973Ab0ICQnR (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Sep 2010 12:43:17 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20100903130420.GB28460@bombadil.infradead.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Thomas Graf Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 09:04:20 -0400 > Similar to accepting router advertisement, the IPv6 stack does not send router > solicitations if forwarding is enabled. > > This patch enables this behavior to be overruled by setting forwarding to the > special value 2. > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf Applied.