From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv6 addrconf: implement RFC7559 router solicitation backoff Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2016 01:54:47 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20160930.015447.181630823844188041.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1475045878-30455-1-git-send-email-zenczykowski@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Cc: maze@google.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, ek@google.com, lorenzo@google.com, hannes@stressinduktion.org, hideaki.yoshifuji@miraclelinux.com To: zenczykowski@gmail.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([184.105.139.130]:36760 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S935714AbcI3FzC (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Sep 2016 01:55:02 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1475045878-30455-1-git-send-email-zenczykowski@gmail.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Maciej Żenczykowski Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 23:57:58 -0700 > From: Maciej Żenczykowski > > This implements: > https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7559 > > Backoff is performed according to RFC3315 section 14: > https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3315#section-14 > > We allow setting /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/*/router_solicitations > to a negative value meaning an unlimited number of retransmits, > and we make this the new default (inline with the RFC). > > We also add a new setting: > /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/*/router_solicitation_max_interval > defaulting to 1 hour (per RFC recommendation). > > Signed-off-by: Maciej Żenczykowski Applied to net-next, thanks.