From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@infradead.org>
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: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 06:26:41 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101206112641.GD18994@canuck.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101124180306.GA20862@srv03.cluenet.de>
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 07:03:06PM +0100, Daniel Roesen wrote:
> 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?
Two reasons: I didn't want to change the behaviour of an existing
configuration option on which someone may rely on and I wanted to
allow sending of RS while still allowing to disable accepting RAs.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-06 11:26 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
2010-12-06 11:26 ` Thomas Graf [this message]
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