From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: dvlasenk@redhat.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, jmorris@namei.org, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org,
kaber@trash.net, jpirko@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [patch net-next v2] ipv6: log autoconfiguration failures
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 12:22:41 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131212.122241.2022824170198915190.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52A99B56.1070503@redhat.com>
From: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 12:17:42 +0100
> I can easily imagine their frustration. Kernel _knows_ why
> it didn't work, and it's not expected to normally pappen,
> why didn't it tell anything about it?
Packets are dropped silently, ARP fails and entries go stale silently,
none of this is logged with kernel messages, why is ipv6 autoconf so
unique and important to justify different behavior?
Give it statistics just like we have for every other kind of similar
event.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-12 17:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-11 11:45 [patch net-next v2] ipv6: log autoconfiguration failures Denys Vlasenko
2013-12-11 19:21 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-12-11 20:54 ` David Miller
2013-12-11 21:09 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-12-12 11:28 ` Denys Vlasenko
2013-12-12 17:24 ` David Miller
2013-12-12 11:17 ` Denys Vlasenko
2013-12-12 17:22 ` David Miller [this message]
2013-12-12 17:58 ` Vlad Yasevich
2013-12-12 18:24 ` David Miller
2013-12-12 19:00 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-12-12 19:06 ` David Miller
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