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From: Flavio Leitner <fbl@redhat.com>
To: David Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org,
	Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Subject: Re: possible bug in IPv6 MLD retransmissions
Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:21:27 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130522212127.GF17259@obelix.rh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OF2FF7FDBF.29F92AB4-ON85257B73.00649006-85257B73.00652081@us.ibm.com>

On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 02:24:34PM -0400, David Stevens wrote:
> Flavio Leitner <fbl@redhat.com> wrote on 05/22/2013 01:27:11 PM:
> 
> > It becomes a bug (and that's why I started with 'possible') if dad
> > completes after the two MLD reports sent with ``::'' source, because
> > routers will ignore those initial reports and the system is left out.
> 
> No, unsolicited reports are not necessary for MLD. If there are no
> other listeners for a group, the reports will be triggered within
> one query interval after a valid LL addr is there.

Agreed that they aren't necessary, but I also don't think it's
a good solution to wait for the query interval.

-- 
fbl

  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-22 21:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-17  3:24 possible bug in IPv6 MLD retransmissions Flavio Leitner
2013-05-18 17:31 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-05-21 15:06   ` Flavio Leitner
2013-05-22  0:40     ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-05-22 11:30       ` David Stevens
2013-05-22 12:51         ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-05-22 17:27         ` Flavio Leitner
2013-05-22 18:24           ` David Stevens
2013-05-22 21:21             ` Flavio Leitner [this message]
2013-05-23 20:21         ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-06-23 14:18           ` Hannes Frederic Sowa

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