From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: nhorman@tuxdriver.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: The mystery of optimistic ipv6 DAD handling
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:48:13 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120103.144813.140566667824296408.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120103194559.GB25184@hmsreliant.think-freely.org>
From: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 14:45:59 -0500
> Because of the above, we can compeltely ignore the manual address add path as
> far as the optimistic path is concerned. Since we only call addrconf_prefix_rcv
> (where we add the SLAAC address), from ndisc_router_discovery (where we receive
> the new router advertisement, and parse its options), I think we can just
> augment addrconf_prefix_rcv with an extra parameter (a bool flag), which is set
> or cleared based on the value of the ND_OPT_SOURCE_LL_ADDR option in the ndopts
> array. addrconf_prefix_rcv can use that flag to set or clear the optimistic
> flag.
>
> Thoughts?
Sounds perfect, thanks Neil.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-03 19:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-27 19:06 The mystery of optimistic ipv6 DAD handling David Miller
2011-12-27 19:53 ` David Miller
2011-12-28 15:19 ` Neil Horman
2011-12-28 18:39 ` David Miller
2011-12-28 19:21 ` Neil Horman
2011-12-28 19:38 ` David Miller
2011-12-29 0:00 ` Neil Horman
2012-01-03 19:45 ` Neil Horman
2012-01-03 19:48 ` David Miller [this message]
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