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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: Jiri Bohac <jbohac@suse.cz>
Cc: ebiederm@xmission.com, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org,
	maheshkelkar@gmail.com, brian.haley@hp.com,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	lorenzo@google.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] ipv6: don't flush routes when setting loopback down
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 12:01:23 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110119120123.40974cbe@s6510> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110119195632.GA27574@midget.suse.cz>

On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 20:56:32 +0100
Jiri Bohac <jbohac@suse.cz> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:38:17AM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > Jiri Bohac <jbohac@suse.cz> wrote:
> > > I have the feeling that Eric's patch is the safest solution we
> > > have so far:
> > Eric's patch has other regressions, see the discussion.
> 
> What regression do you mean? I have read the whole discussion
> thoroughly. You only say in one message that deleting ::1 would
> propagate to routing daemons. And Eric correctly stated that
> people couldn't hit this, because  deleting ::1 would break
> things on its own.
> 
> Is there a real problem with Eric's fix?
> 
> Thanks,
> 

If address is assigned to loopback interface (other than ::1) then
Eric's fix doesn't work.  It is common to use an additional address
on the lo device when doing routing protocols.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-19 20:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-06  0:24 echo > 0 .../disable_ipv6 broken in 2.6.37-rc4 Eric W. Biederman
2010-12-06  0:33 ` Lorenzo Colitti
2010-12-06  0:39   ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-12-06  5:51     ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-12-06 16:10 ` Brian Haley
2010-12-08 21:29   ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-12-08 22:49     ` Brian Haley
2010-12-08 23:13       ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-12-08 23:49         ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-12-09  2:42           ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-12-09  3:18             ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-12-09  4:16               ` [PATCH] Fix 2.6.34-rc1 regression in disable_ipv6 support Eric W. Biederman
2010-12-09 15:28                 ` Brian Haley
2010-12-09 16:27                   ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-12-09 19:22                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-12-09 19:09                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-12-09 19:16                     ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-12-09 19:31                       ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-12-09 20:20                         ` David Miller
2010-12-09 20:20                       ` David Miller
2010-12-09 22:51                         ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-12-16 21:28                         ` [RFC] ipv6: don't flush routes when setting loopback down Stephen Hemminger
2010-12-16 23:17                           ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-12-17  1:18                           ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-12-17  2:26                             ` David Miller
2011-01-19 19:18                               ` Jiri Bohac
2011-01-19 19:38                                 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-01-19 19:56                                   ` Jiri Bohac
2011-01-19 20:01                                     ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2011-01-22  8:17                                       ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-01-22 22:39                                         ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-01-22 22:54                                           ` David Miller
2011-01-23  4:41                                             ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-01-23  5:42                                               ` David Miller
2011-01-23  8:24                                                 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-01-23  8:26                                                   ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-01-23  9:15                                                     ` [stable] " Willy Tarreau
2011-01-23  9:21                                                       ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-01-23 10:34                                                       ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-01-23 19:21                                                         ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-01-23 19:57                                                           ` [stable] " David Miller
2011-01-23 19:48                                                     ` David Miller
2011-01-23 19:47                                                   ` David Miller
2010-12-10  4:02                   ` [PATCH] Fix 2.6.34-rc1 regression in disable_ipv6 support Stephen Hemminger

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