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.
next prev parent 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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