From: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, hannes@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] net: ipv6: Make address flushing on ifdown optional
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 11:47:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54C2972C.3080702@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150122224033.6e2db5ce@urahara>
On 1/22/15 11:40 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> Would this break existing application expecting a particular semantic
> by listening to netlink? What happens to packets received with the static
> address when interface is down? With IPv4 Linux is mostly a weak host
> model, and IPv6 somewhere in between.
>
> For vendors that control the application stack or have limited number
> of services this would work fine, but what about RHEL?
>
>
The intent of making it a sysctl option is to maintain backwards
compatibility and allow users to take the new functionality if desired -
which includes accepting changes in behavior.
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-23 18:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-14 19:17 [RFC PATCH] net: ipv6: Make address flushing on ifdown optional David Ahern
2015-01-19 15:02 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2015-01-19 16:12 ` Harout Hedeshian
2015-01-19 19:11 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2015-01-20 17:07 ` David Ahern
2015-01-23 6:40 ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-01-23 12:22 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2015-01-27 4:56 ` Andy Gospodarek
2015-01-27 9:44 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2015-01-27 14:55 ` David Ahern
2015-01-27 15:28 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2015-01-28 3:21 ` David Ahern
2015-01-28 8:25 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2015-01-27 16:09 ` Andy Gospodarek
2015-01-23 18:47 ` David Ahern [this message]
2015-01-23 16:09 ` Brian Haley
2015-01-23 18:23 ` David Ahern
2015-01-23 21:17 ` Brian Haley
2015-01-26 16:49 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
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