From: Daniel Roesen <dr@cluenet.de>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@vger.kernel.org, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv6: add special mode forwarding=2 to send RS while configured as router
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 19:03:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101124180306.GA20862@srv03.cluenet.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100903130420.GB28460@bombadil.infradead.org>
Hi,
On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 09:04:20AM -0400, Thomas Graf wrote:
> 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.
Wouldn't it be more elegant to use accept_ra=2 as trigger instead of a new special
value for the forwarding option?
Best regards,
Daniel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-24 18:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-03 13:04 [PATCH] ipv6: add special mode forwarding=2 to send RS while configured as router Thomas Graf
2010-09-03 15:00 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-09-03 16:43 ` David Miller
2010-11-24 18:03 ` Daniel Roesen [this message]
2010-12-06 11:26 ` Thomas Graf
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