From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Frysinger Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 06:34:04 -0500 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 00/28] Add link-local addressing support In-Reply-To: <4F211B11.1070703@denx.de> References: <1327020811-1538-1-git-send-email-joe.hershberger@ni.com> <4F211B11.1070703@denx.de> Message-ID: <201202030634.06229.vapier@gentoo.org> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On Thursday 26 January 2012 04:21:21 Stefano Babic wrote: > On 26/01/2012 00:40, Joe Hershberger wrote: > >> I have a basic question about your patchset. RFC3927 requires that > >> addresses are continuosly checked to avoid conflicts - this is a strict > >> requirement. > > > > True. It cannot be 100% compliant in every use-case. > > It is important that these limitations are well documented > > > Any time we are processing NetLoop, we will handle conflict correctly. > > Yes, but NetLoop is running only when there some activity on the network. isn't that the only time that matters ? if we're sitting at the command prompt, then u-boot has the network pretty much shut off (doesn't respond to ARP let alone anything higher). as soon as we try to do network communication, we are compliant again. -mike -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 836 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: