From: Tore Anderson <tore@fud.no>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv6: Send ICMPv6 RSes only when RAs are accepted
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 23:43:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E73C2E5.2050901@fud.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110916.171503.42153974977438913.davem@davemloft.net>
* David Miller
> From: Tore Anderson <tore@fud.no>
> Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 14:08:33 +0200
>
>> The change also makes "Hybrid Router" forwarding mode ("forwarding"
>> sysctl set to 2) redundant, as the only thing that distinguished it from
>> the standard Router mode (forwarding=1) was that RSes was being sent. It
>> has therefore been removed.
>
> You're not removing "accept_ra==2", it's still there in the test:
>
>> - if ((ifp->idev->cnf.forwarding == 0 ||
>> - ifp->idev->cnf.forwarding == 2) &&
>> + if (((ifp->idev->cnf.accept_ra == 1 && !ifp->idev->cnf.forwarding) ||
>> + ifp->idev->cnf.accept_ra == 2) &&
>
> And it does provide it's own unique behavior compared to
> "accept_ra==1".
Hi David,
I'm not removing accept_ra==2, no, only forwarding==2. Or, more
precisely, I'm only removing the *documentation* for forwarding==2;
forwarding==2 will still work, but there's no difference from
forwarding==1 any longer.
--
Tore Anderson
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-16 22:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-29 12:08 [PATCH] ipv6: Send ICMPv6 RSes only when RAs are accepted Tore Anderson
2011-08-29 9:47 ` Tore Anderson
2011-09-06 17:57 ` David Miller
2011-09-16 21:15 ` David Miller
2011-09-16 21:43 ` Tore Anderson [this message]
2011-09-16 21:49 ` David Miller
2011-09-16 22:07 ` Tore Anderson
2011-09-16 23:15 ` David Miller
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