From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: hannes@stressinduktion.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, fleitner@redhat.com,
yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, dlstevens@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] ipv6: split duplicate address detection and router solicitation timer
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 16:23:58 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130625.162358.2018248422018779273.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130623163901.GB13836@order.stressinduktion.org>
From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2013 18:39:01 +0200
> This patch splits the timers for duplicate address detection and router
> solicitations apart. The router solicitations timer goes into inet6_dev
> and the dad timer stays in inet6_ifaddr.
>
> The reason behind this patch is to reduce the number of unneeded router
> solicitations send out by the host if additional link-local addresses
> are created. Currently we send out RS for every link-local address on
> an interface.
>
> If the RS timer fires we pick a source address with ipv6_get_lladdr. This
> change could hurt people adding additional link-local addresses and
> specifying these addresses in the radvd clients section because we
> no longer guarantee that we use every ll address as source address in
> router solicitations.
>
> Cc: Flavio Leitner <fleitner@redhat.com>
> Cc: Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
> Cc: David Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Applied.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-25 23:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-23 16:39 [PATCH net-next] ipv6: split duplicate address detection and router solicitation timer Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-06-24 18:18 ` Flavio Leitner
2013-06-25 23:23 ` David Miller [this message]
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