From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brian Haley Subject: Re: [PATCH] IPv6: Change addrconf code to deal with link changes better Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 21:10:29 -0400 Message-ID: <4C8AD705.10200@hp.com> References: <4C8A9BF7.2090102@hp.com> <40oql7-6f5.ln1@chipmunk.wormnet.eu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Alexander Clouter Return-path: Received: from g4t0017.houston.hp.com ([15.201.24.20]:33003 "EHLO g4t0017.houston.hp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750916Ab0IKBKd (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Sep 2010 21:10:33 -0400 In-Reply-To: <40oql7-6f5.ln1@chipmunk.wormnet.eu> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 09/10/2010 06:27 PM, Alexander Clouter wrote: > Brian Haley wrote: >> >> [snipped] >> >> Change the IPv6 addrconf code to handle the case where the NIC link >> state goes UP-DOWN-UP by removing all the autoconfigured addresses >> when it goes down, so that when it comes back up they will get added >> again and DAD will be triggered. >> > Surely this is going to result in me sending you lots of rude emails > everytime cursing you when my SSH connections are terminated for no real > reason on a link flap? Privacy addresses are handy on servers too such > as DNS servers... No, you'd be sending me some rude emails, I didn't test that particular case, so Dave, don't apply this. I guess we've lived with it long enough the way it is that dropping a few packets at initialization isn't *that* bad. I'll see if I can figure out a better way in the meantime... -Brian