From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: lorenzo@google.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, jpa@google.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv6: updates to privacy addresses per RFC 4941.
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2011 18:05:14 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110801.180514.287177576866682423.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110726235049.6D52516A59B@drone1.mtv.corp.google.com>
From: lorenzo@google.com (Lorenzo Colitti)
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 16:50:49 -0700 (PDT)
> Update the code to handle some of the differences between
> RFC 3041 and RFC 4941, which obsoletes it. Also a couple
> of janitorial fixes.
>
> - Allow router advertisements to increase the lifetime of
> temporary addresses. This was not allowed by RFC 3041,
> but is specified by RFC 4941. It is useful when RA
> lifetimes are lower than TEMP_{VALID,PREFERRED}_LIFETIME:
> in this case, the previous code would delete or deprecate
> addresses prematurely.
>
> - Change the default of MAX_RETRY to 3 per RFC 4941.
>
> - Add a comment to clarify that the preferred and valid
> lifetimes in inet6_ifaddr are relative to the timestamp.
>
> - Shorten lines to 80 characters in a couple of places.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>
Queued up for net-next, thanks!
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2011-07-26 23:50 [PATCH] ipv6: updates to privacy addresses per RFC 4941 Lorenzo Colitti
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