From: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com>
To: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] ipv6: recreate ipv6 link-local addresses when increasing MTU over IPV6_MIN_MTU
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 12:16:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9831.1445887009@famine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1445877236.175039.420582401.131556D5@webmail.messagingengine.com>
Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> wrote:
>Hello Alex,
>
>On Mon, Oct 26, 2015, at 16:52, Alexander Duyck wrote:
>> Seems like this code isn't quite correct. You are calling ipv6_add_dev
>> for slave devices, and if I understand things correctly I don't believe
>> that was happening before and may be an unintended side effect.
>
>Ah, btw., autoconf and ipv6 operation on IFF_SLAVE devices is actually
>desired nowadays and don't think we can change this. See also:
><https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/531196/>
IPv6 addrconf on IFF_SLAVE devices was disabled for bonding
slaves in commit c2edacf80e15 because it caused issues with snooping
switches.
This is also referenced in
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=236750
Won't re-enabling autoconf on IFF_SLAVE devices cause that issue
to return?
-J
---
-Jay Vosburgh, jay.vosburgh@canonical.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-26 19:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-26 14:36 [PATCH net-next] ipv6: recreate ipv6 link-local addresses when increasing MTU over IPV6_MIN_MTU Hannes Frederic Sowa
2015-10-26 15:52 ` Alexander Duyck
2015-10-26 16:05 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2015-10-26 17:07 ` Alexander Duyck
2015-10-26 17:21 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2015-10-26 19:05 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2015-10-26 16:33 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2015-10-26 19:16 ` Jay Vosburgh [this message]
2015-10-26 20:45 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2015-10-26 20:52 ` Alexander Duyck
2015-10-26 18:06 ` [net-next PATCH v2] " Alexander Duyck
2015-10-30 9:11 ` David Miller
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