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From: Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de>
To: "YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / ?$B5HF#1QL@" <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, jbeulich@suse.de
Subject: Re: [RFC IPv6] Disabling IPv6 autoconf
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 12:44:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060829104418.GI1201@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060829.183426.52410264.yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>

On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 06:34:26PM +0900, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / ?$B5HF#1QL@ wrote:
> > The attached tentative patch makes IPv6 autoconf depend on the
> > availability of IFF_MULTICAST. This is admittedly a bit of a hack, but
> > it makes sense, since DAD and router solicitation do rely on multicast.
> 
> I disagree.  The node MUST NOT assign live address on
> that interface.

I'm not sure I understand. The Xen bridge devices get fe:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
as MAC address.  Which is a bit hackish, but that seems to be the way
the Xen folks want to do it.

OTOH they do not want to do any IPv6 autoconfiguration with these
addresses, because they generate DAD warnings, and cause one
random machine to obtain fe80::ffff:ffff:feff:ffff as link-local
address.

> Further analysis is needed, but one idea is to skip
> addrconf_dev_config() if !(dev->flags & IFF_MULTICAST).

That should work just as well. Do you want me to submit an
updated patch?

Thanks,
Olaf
-- 
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-08-29 10:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-29  8:24 [RFC IPv6] Disabling IPv6 autoconf Olaf Kirch
2006-08-29  9:34 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2006-08-29  9:54   ` David Miller
2006-08-29 10:39     ` Herbert Xu
2006-08-29 10:45       ` Olaf Kirch
2006-08-29 10:55     ` Pekka Savola
2006-08-29 11:10       ` Olaf Kirch
2006-08-29 11:13       ` Peter Bieringer
2006-08-29 16:30     ` Alexey Kuznetsov
2006-08-29 10:44   ` Olaf Kirch [this message]
2006-08-29 15:51     ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-08-29 11:21 ` Hasso Tepper
2006-08-29 11:31   ` Peter Bieringer
2006-08-29 13:04     ` Herbert Xu
2006-08-29 13:59       ` Hasso Tepper
2006-08-30  0:12         ` Herbert Xu
2006-08-30  3:26           ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2006-08-30  5:41           ` Hasso Tepper
2006-08-29 18:10 ` Thomas Graf
2006-08-29 20:00   ` Olaf Kirch

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