From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
To: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>,
Sylvain Munaut <s.munaut@whatever-company.com>,
"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Who/What is supposed to remove IPv6 address from interface when moving from one network to another ?
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 19:34:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130318183407.GA2740@order.stressinduktion.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKD1Yr1=1kfcSmRYgnrYQBhNPPc=nquB2c1jLbopbvqz848cxQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 09:51:55AM -0700, Lorenzo Colitti wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 12:48 PM, Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com> wrote:
> > The kernel does not (and shouldn't) trigger anything on carrier change as that's a
> > site-specific/user-specific policy.
>
> Actually, it *does* trigger events on carrier change: it creates the
> addresses when you connect. It just doesn't delete them when you
> disconnect. So you can get addresses without a userspace daemon, but
> you can never delete them without a userspace daemon.
Not directly related, but I wonder if we should treat the change of the
mac address as a carrier change in ipv6 to create a new ll address. I
did not find any satisfying answer yet.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-18 18:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2013-03-14 19:33 ` Who/What is supposed to remove IPv6 address from interface when moving from one network to another ? Sylvain Munaut
2013-03-14 19:48 ` Dan Williams
2013-03-18 16:51 ` Lorenzo Colitti
2013-03-18 17:03 ` Dan Williams
2013-03-18 18:11 ` Sylvain Munaut
2013-03-18 18:12 ` Lorenzo Colitti
2013-03-18 18:28 ` Sylvain Munaut
2013-03-18 20:42 ` Dan Williams
2013-03-18 20:49 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2013-03-18 18:34 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa [this message]
2013-03-18 18:39 ` Lorenzo Colitti
2013-03-18 18:58 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
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