From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: romieu@fr.zoreil.com
Cc: bernat@luffy.cx, zenczykowski@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: nonlocal_bind and IPv6
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:20:12 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111216.132012.625460188266025260.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111216111027.GA2315@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com>
From: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:10:27 +0100
> Vincent Bernat <bernat@luffy.cx> :
>> On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 02:06:00 -0500 (EST), David Miller wrote:
>> >>04:58, Maciej Żenczykowski <zenczykowski@gmail.com> disait :
> [...]
>> >>>why not simply use the IP_TRANSPARENT or IP_FREEBIND socket
>> >>>options?
>> >>
>> >>Because this requires modifying each affected software. This
>> >>can be difficult if you don't have the source code available.
>> >
>> >But it means that it would work on every single kernel verion out
>> >there.
> [...]
>> Moreover, I am just adding the IPv6 version of this setting. The
>> IPv4 version already exists.
>
> For IPv6 this is adding a system-scope function which will have to be
> maintained and available for ages. It will compete with the existing,
> per-application answer. The "fix you application / design" argument
> is thus stronger than with IPv4.
Another excellent point.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-16 18:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-14 16:20 nonlocal_bind and IPv6 Vincent Bernat
2011-12-14 16:20 ` [PATCH 1/2] net/ipv6: add ip_nonlocal_bind sysctl for IPv6 Vincent Bernat
2011-12-14 16:20 ` [PATCH 2/2] net/ipv4: bind ip_nonlocal_bind to current netns Vincent Bernat
2011-12-16 3:58 ` nonlocal_bind and IPv6 Maciej Żenczykowski
2011-12-16 6:24 ` Vincent Bernat
2011-12-16 7:06 ` David Miller
2011-12-16 9:53 ` Vincent Bernat
2011-12-16 11:10 ` Francois Romieu
2011-12-16 18:20 ` David Miller [this message]
2011-12-16 18:18 ` David Miller
2011-12-17 10:52 ` Vincent Bernat
2011-12-16 6:46 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
2011-12-16 9:46 ` Vincent Bernat
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2011-12-12 13:18 Vincent Bernat
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