Re: [RFC IPv6] Disabling IPv6 autoconf

From: Peter Bieringer <pb@bieringer.de>
To: Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, okir@suse.de, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	jbeulich@suse.de
Subject: Re: [RFC IPv6] Disabling IPv6 autoconf
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 13:13:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44F42176.1000701@bieringer.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0608291348520.25442@netcore.fi>

Pekka Savola schrieb:
> On Tue, 29 Aug 2006, David Miller wrote:
>> From: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
>> Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 18:34:26 +0900 (JST)
>>
>>> Further analysis is needed, but one idea is to skip
>>> addrconf_dev_config() if !(dev->flags & IFF_MULTICAST).
>>
>> Yes, it is logical because without multicast IPV6 cannot
>> work correctly.
>>
>> But from another perspective (I assume these bridged Xen devices use
>> ARPHRD_ETHER, do they?) a device with ARPHRD_ETHER and cleared
>> IFF_MULTICAST flag seems potentially problematic.  How many other
>> things break over such a device?
> 
> It's not obvious that IFF_MULTICAST is good enough.  IMHO, you should be
> able to run addrconf on non-multicast interfaces as well (e.g.,
> point-to-point interfaces, tunnels in particular).

Hmm, at least on RHEL4 (2.6.9):

1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000
3: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000
4: sit0: <NOARP> mtu 1480 qdisc noop
5: sit1@NONE: <POINTOPOINT,NOARP,UP> mtu 1480 qdisc noqueue
6: ppp0: <POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST,NOARP,UP> mtu 1492 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 3
8: tun6to4@NONE: <NOARP,UP> mtu 1480 qdisc noqueue

And contributed from FC5:

5: vmnet8: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,10000> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen
1000
7: tun0: <POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST,NOARP,UP,10000> mtu 1500 qdisc
pfifo_fast qlen 100

ppp0, tun0 has IFF_MULTICAST set, so not an issue.

> It seems that current code already excludes IFF_NOARP interfaces though.

So 6-in-4 tunnels are already except.

Don't wonder about Flag "10000", missing support in "ip", already
reported https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=202199 and
fixed in rawhide.

Just my 2 cents,

	Peter
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