From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Oliver Hartkopp Subject: Re: [IPV6] addrconf: Fix IPv6 on tuntap tunnels Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 14:33:15 +0200 Message-ID: <4673D88B.5000805@hartkopp.net> References: <20070614.130358.90120374.davem@davemloft.net> <467259DD.7030703@hartkopp.net> <4672F9AE.6070400@hp.com> <20070615.151457.98556461.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: vladislav.yasevich@hp.com, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, koster@debian.org.tw, socketcan@hartkopp.net, urs@isnogud.escape.de, florz@florz.de To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from mo-p00-ob.rzone.de ([81.169.146.161]:45684 "EHLO mo-p00-ob.rzone.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754662AbXFPMd4 (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Jun 2007 08:33:56 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20070615.151457.98556461.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org David Miller wrote: > From: Vlad Yasevich > Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 16:42:22 -0400 > > >> No, the questions should really be: >> >> 1. Is IPV6 supported over this media type. >> yes: got to 2 >> no: stop >> >> 2. Is the device MTU >= IPV6_MIN_MTU >> yes: continue >> no: stop >> >> Autoconfiguration is a layer on top of IPv6. Whether it's enabled >> or not should not dictate whether IPv6 addressed may be configured or not. >> > > Sounds good to me, patches? :-) > Yes, to me it sounds also very good. I'm not that deep in IPv6 and i do not know about all the media types that support IPv6, e.g. if a whitelist (as i suggested) is the better way - or a blacklist. So i would just support the request from David for patches :-) Best regards, Oliver