From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: lorenzo@google.com
Cc: brian.haley@hp.com, shemminger@vyatta.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv6: addrconf: clear IPv6 addresses and routes when losing link
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 10:47:10 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101026.104710.232747902.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=P80OUBSy3xCt_qOjPGTwNjrtFL1iLJnkc9joq@mail.gmail.com>
From: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 10:37:53 -0700
> So when the link comes back, we'd have to wait for all RAs to come in
> (there could be multiple routers on a link, each announcing different
> prefixes), and when this is all done, compare the list of addresses to
> the prefixes that are currently on the link and delete the ones that
> don't match. We'd have to do the same with default routers and /64
> routes to all the link prefixes.
Why would you do this when there are link layer indications that
we are attached to a different network?
The only thing missing is a new device notification type, some code to
generate it in the wireless subsystem, and an ipv6 handler to zap the
addresses when received.
Please think out of the box for a second, thanks :-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-26 17:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-26 2:08 [PATCH] ipv6: addrconf: clear IPv6 addresses and routes when losing link Lorenzo Colitti
2010-10-26 4:38 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-10-26 5:44 ` Lorenzo Colitti
2010-10-26 15:28 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-10-26 17:11 ` Lorenzo Colitti
2010-11-02 2:54 ` Dan Williams
2010-11-05 6:40 ` Lorenzo Colitti
2010-10-26 16:58 ` Brian Haley
2010-10-26 17:09 ` Lorenzo Colitti
2010-10-26 17:10 ` David Miller
2010-10-26 17:13 ` Lorenzo Colitti
2010-10-26 17:21 ` David Miller
2010-10-26 17:37 ` Lorenzo Colitti
2010-10-26 17:47 ` David Miller [this message]
2010-10-26 17:50 ` Lorenzo Colitti
2010-10-26 17:55 ` David Miller
2010-10-26 18:02 ` Lorenzo Colitti
2010-10-26 18:21 ` David Miller
2010-11-02 2:50 ` Dan Williams
2010-10-26 18:17 ` Lorenzo Colitti
2010-10-26 18:23 ` David Miller
2010-10-26 22:53 ` Lorenzo Colitti
2010-10-27 15:51 ` David Miller
2010-10-27 16:01 ` Lorenzo Colitti
2010-10-27 16:05 ` David Miller
2010-10-27 2:31 ` Brian Haley
2010-10-27 8:35 ` Maciej Żenczykowski
2010-10-27 16:03 ` Lorenzo Colitti
2010-10-27 20:39 ` Maciej Żenczykowski
2010-10-28 22:23 ` Lorenzo Colitti
2010-10-28 22:41 ` Lorenzo Colitti
2010-10-28 22:50 ` Maciej Żenczykowski
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