From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brian Haley Subject: Re: [PATCH] IPv6: Fix incorrect disable_ipv6 behavior Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:52:40 -0400 Message-ID: <49BAFFD8.7030705@hp.com> References: <> <1236292120-32050-1-git-send-email-brian.haley@hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: davem@davemloft.net, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org Return-path: Received: from g1t0026.austin.hp.com ([15.216.28.33]:11760 "EHLO g1t0026.austin.hp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762971AbZCNAwn (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:52:43 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1236292120-32050-1-git-send-email-brian.haley@hp.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Brian Haley wrote: > Fix the behavior of allowing both sysctl and addrconf_dad_failure() > to set the disable_ipv6 parameter without any bad side-effects. > If DAD fails and accept_dad > 1, we will still set disable_ipv6=1, > but then instead of allowing an RA to add an address then > immediately fail DAD, we simply don't allow the address to be > added in the first place. This also lets the user set this flag > and disable all IPv6 addresses on the interface, or on the entire > system. So I haven't seen an Ack/Nack for this patch, and the patchwork queue has shrunk to just a handful in the past few hours :) -Brian