From: Heiner Kallweit <heiner.kallweit@web.de>
To: "netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: ipv6: Should inet6_addr_del consider IFA_F_MANAGETEMPADDR?
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2014 20:26:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53443F5D.6030509@web.de> (raw)
I stumbled accross the fact that inet6_addr_add as well as inet6_addr_modify
consider IFA_F_TEMPORARY whilst inet6_addr_del does not.
My understanding of IFA_F_MANAGETEMPADDR is that it allows userspace applications
to deal with temporary addresses w/o having to create / track (and possibly delete)
each and every temporary address.
This works fine when creating / modifying a global address. However when a
global address is deleted the orphaned temporary addresses remain.
Shouldn't the userspace be able to set IFA_F_MANAGETEMPADDR also for RTM_DELADDR
to signalize that the kernel should delete all related temporary addresses as well?
It would be a rather small extension to manage_tempaddrs to add a "delete" parameter
and set valid_lft=prefered_lft=0 for each temporary address if set.
Sorry if this was discussed before and I miss something.
Rgds,
Heiner
next reply other threads:[~2014-04-08 19:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-08 18:26 Heiner Kallweit [this message]
2014-04-08 19:08 ` ipv6: Should inet6_addr_del consider IFA_F_MANAGETEMPADDR? Heiner Kallweit
2014-04-08 20:14 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-04-09 19:38 ` Heiner Kallweit
2014-04-09 20:36 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
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