From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH linux-2.6 v2] IPv6: Temp addresses are immediately deleted. Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 12:38:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20101026.123852.58436932.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20100927171010.GB7106@adams.ccsl.carleton.ca> <20100928.233028.112599117.davem@davemloft.net> <201010161442.18748.gwurster@scs.carleton.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, pekkas@netcore.fi, jmorris@namei.org, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, kaber@trash.net, shemminger@vyatta.com, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, herbert@gondor.hengli.com.au, ebiederm@xmission.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: gwurster@scs.carleton.ca Return-path: In-Reply-To: <201010161442.18748.gwurster@scs.carleton.ca> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Glenn Wurster Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2010 14:42:17 -0400 > No, the first patch was to create a temporary address if none exists. Like > Brian Haley pointed out, that patch accommodates the case where we set > use_tempaddr to a non-zero value after the interface had been brought up. > > This patch accommodates the case where the router is only broadcasting > advertisements every x seconds, and yet the user has set the valid_lft to be > something less than x. Ok, thanks for your patience. I've applied both of your patches, thanks.