From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: hannes@stressinduktion.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, dborkman@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] ipv6: remove old token ipv6 address as soon as possible
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 16:30:03 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130625.163003.1939592365965386146.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130624200328.GJ13836@order.stressinduktion.org>
From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 22:03:28 +0200
> If the tokenized ip address is re-set on an interface we depend on the
> arrival of a new router advertisment to call addrconf_verify to clean
> up the old address (which valid_lft is now set to 0). Old addresses can
> linger around for a longer time if e.g. the source of router advertisments
> vanishes.
>
> So, call addrconf_verify immediately after setting the new tokenized
> address to get rid of the old tokenized addresses.
>
> Cc: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Applied.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-25 23:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-24 20:03 [PATCH net-next] ipv6: remove old token ipv6 address as soon as possible Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-06-25 7:56 ` Daniel Borkmann
2013-06-25 23:30 ` David Miller [this message]
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