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From: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
To: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>,
	Andy Gospodarek <gospo@cumulusnetworks.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] net: ipv6: Make address flushing on ifdown optional
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 07:55:18 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54C7A6D6.8020805@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1422351861.13969.5.camel@stressinduktion.org>

On 1/27/15 2:44 AM, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
>> You are probably correct that many will not switch, but this sysctl
>> gives those who want to switch a nice option without having to carry
>> extra kernel patches.  I like it.
>
> I don't see any problem with the patch in general but DAD should
> definitely happen on reenabling interfaces. Current behavior does not
> seem fine to me. It's ok if this patch doesn't change this behavior now
> but a follow-up one will be needed then.
>
> David, will you look after the DAD logic and do you plan a follow-up
> patch?

Yes, I do plan a follow-up patch for this change. Will work on that this 
week.

 From the discussion a second patch is needed to make sure DAD is done 
on a link up if there is an address configured.

David

  reply	other threads:[~2015-01-27 14:55 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 [this message]
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
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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