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From: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>
To: soohoon.lee@f5.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IFA_F_OPTIMISTIC is not supported?
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2017 17:07:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170908150733.GA21315@bistromath.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <59b2a92f.G2i6Z3JSoznmqvuW%soohoon.lee@f5.com>

2017-09-08, 10:29:03 -0400, soohoon.lee@f5.com wrote:
> rtm_newaddr masks off OPTIMISTIC.
> 
> inet6_rtm_newaddr(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh)
> ...
>         /* We ignore other flags so far. */
>         ifa_flags &= IFA_F_NODAD | IFA_F_HOMEADDRESS | IFA_F_MANAGETEMPADDR |
>                      IFA_F_NOPREFIXROUTE;
> 
> Is there any problem or not allowed?

I was planning to submit a patch to allow that soon (when net-next
reopens). While testing, I've found you need a few other small changes
once you allow userspace to set the optimistic flag on addresses.


Thanks,

-- 
Sabrina

      reply	other threads:[~2017-09-08 15:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-08 14:29 IFA_F_OPTIMISTIC is not supported? soohoon.lee
2017-09-08 15:07 ` Sabrina Dubroca [this message]

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