From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hannes Frederic Sowa Subject: Re: [patch net-next] ipv6: allow userspace to create address with IFLA_F_TEMPORARY flag Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 14:11:38 +0100 Message-ID: <20131029131138.GA16253@order.stressinduktion.org> References: <20131028.204306.2213130677400093266.davem@davemloft.net> <20131029124010.GA15762@order.stressinduktion.org> <1383052163.5464.28.camel@edumazet-glaptop.roam.corp.google.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: David Laight , David Miller , jiri@resnulli.us, vyasevich@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, jmorris@namei.org, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, kaber@trash.net, thaller@redhat.com, stephen@networkplumber.org, Dave Taht To: Eric Dumazet Return-path: Received: from order.stressinduktion.org ([87.106.68.36]:36030 "EHLO order.stressinduktion.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755175Ab3J2NLj (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Oct 2013 09:11:39 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1383052163.5464.28.camel@edumazet-glaptop.roam.corp.google.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 06:09:23AM -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote: > On Tue, 2013-10-29 at 13:40 +0100, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote: > > > Yes, this is a very unfortunate situation. From my experience it is not that > > easy to get a patch merged into isc-dhcp. > > > > It seems not that invasive to switch from af_packet to an udp socket with > > SO_BROADCAST set. > > Has anyone cooked and submitted such a patch ? Not me, my patch was intended for the server side (dhcrelay correctly choosing source addresses). > I can visit ISC with a hammer if needed ;) Actually that is a very big motivation for me to try to come up with a patch at the weekend. ;-)