From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller 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) Message-ID: <20130625.163003.1939592365965386146.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20130624200328.GJ13836@order.stressinduktion.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, dborkman@redhat.com To: hannes@stressinduktion.org Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:34981 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752200Ab3FYXaE (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Jun 2013 19:30:04 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20130624200328.GJ13836@order.stressinduktion.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Hannes Frederic Sowa 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 > Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa Applied.