From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: "Nicolas de Pesloüan" <nicolas.2p.debian@gmail.com>
Cc: Marc Haber <mh+netdev@zugschlus.de>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bridge stays down until a port is added
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:42:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110926154225.76514656@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E80F8BD.4010401@gmail.com>
> And this might also allow to set an IPv6 address on a dummy interface, which Marc Haber reported as
> not being allowed for now, probably because DAD cannot succeed on a dummy interface and as such, a
> bind() cannot be allowed, and as such, setting the IPv6 address is currently useless.
For dummy, the interface should probably have the IFF_NOARP flag set.
There isn't any point in doing network discovery on a non-connected
interface. That would make DAD a no-op and bind would work.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-26 22:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-11 7:06 Bridge stays down until a port is added Marc Haber
2011-08-11 15:17 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-08-11 20:54 ` Marc Haber
2011-08-11 22:41 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-08-12 12:22 ` Sven-Haegar Koch
2011-08-20 9:47 ` Marc Haber
2011-08-20 16:30 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-08-21 12:13 ` Marc Haber
2011-08-22 15:57 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-09-17 20:42 ` Marc Haber
2011-09-20 20:20 ` Dan Williams
2011-09-25 8:25 ` Marc Haber
2011-09-26 15:47 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-09-26 20:02 ` Nicolas de Pesloüan
2011-09-26 20:05 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-09-26 20:56 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-09-26 22:12 ` Nicolas de Pesloüan
2011-09-26 22:42 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2011-09-27 0:28 ` Sven-Haegar Koch
2011-09-27 0:43 ` Stephen Hemminger
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