From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Francois Romieu Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 28282] New: forwarding turns autoconfiguration off Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 23:44:11 +0100 Message-ID: <20110208224411.GA9674@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> References: <20110208133408.7d447e6a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20110208.134421.39185637.davem@davemloft.net> <4D51BFCE.2070405@msgid.danisch.de> <20110208.143046.246534138.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: hadmut@danisch.de, akpm@linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org, bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from violet.fr.zoreil.com ([92.243.8.30]:58879 "EHLO violet.fr.zoreil.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753954Ab1BHWrv (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Feb 2011 17:47:51 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110208.143046.246534138.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: David Miller : > From: Hadmut Danisch > Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2011 23:12:30 +0100 > > > On 08.02.2011 22:44, David Miller wrote: > >> > >> This is a case where we're probably just following what the RFC documents > >> state we should do, which means unless you can provide clear reference to > >> a specification that states we should behave otherwise this isn't changing. > > > > Could you cite where exactly this is stated in the RFC documents? > > I'm working on other bugs at the moment, so I am personally unable to > help you with this at this time. Perhaps someone else can. This one MAY^W may be relevant (see http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4862.txt) : Thomson, et al. Standards Track [Page 3] RFC 4862 IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration September 2007 [...] The autoconfiguration process specified in this document applies only to hosts and not routers. Since host autoconfiguration uses information advertised by routers, routers will need to be configured by some other means. However, it is expected that routers will generate link-local addresses using the mechanism described in this document. In addition, routers are expected to successfully pass the Duplicate Address Detection procedure described in this document on all addresses prior to assigning them to an interface. -- Ueimor