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From: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: brian.haley@hp.com, shemminger@vyatta.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv6: addrconf: clear IPv6 addresses and routes when losing link
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 15:53:50 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTik2Q=fF9j6eiBQx33e2JU7EG3Sc5hnXyDH24+mt@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101026.112321.258116003.davem@davemloft.net>

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:23 AM, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
>> This works pretty well. Why not do the same for IPv6? The only
>> difference in IPv6 is that the kernel is the one doing
>> autoconfiguration, so it's the kernel that should be doing the asking.
>
> That should be fine, but if I have static IPv6 addresses assigned to
> an interface I really don't want them changing on a simple link flap.

As the patch stands, they don't. Only autoconfigured addresses will be
cleared, because addrconf_ifdown() does not remove any addresses that
are permanent (unless they are link-local, in which case they are
recreated as soon as link comes back).

  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-26 22:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-26  2:08 [PATCH] ipv6: addrconf: clear IPv6 addresses and routes when losing link Lorenzo Colitti
2010-10-26  4:38 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-10-26  5:44   ` Lorenzo Colitti
2010-10-26 15:28     ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-10-26 17:11       ` Lorenzo Colitti
2010-11-02  2:54       ` Dan Williams
2010-11-05  6:40         ` Lorenzo Colitti
2010-10-26 16:58     ` Brian Haley
2010-10-26 17:09       ` Lorenzo Colitti
2010-10-26 17:10       ` David Miller
2010-10-26 17:13         ` Lorenzo Colitti
2010-10-26 17:21           ` David Miller
2010-10-26 17:37             ` Lorenzo Colitti
2010-10-26 17:47               ` David Miller
2010-10-26 17:50                 ` Lorenzo Colitti
2010-10-26 17:55                   ` David Miller
2010-10-26 18:02                     ` Lorenzo Colitti
2010-10-26 18:21                       ` David Miller
2010-11-02  2:50                       ` Dan Williams
2010-10-26 18:17                 ` Lorenzo Colitti
2010-10-26 18:23                   ` David Miller
2010-10-26 22:53                     ` Lorenzo Colitti [this message]
2010-10-27 15:51                       ` David Miller
2010-10-27 16:01                         ` Lorenzo Colitti
2010-10-27 16:05                           ` David Miller
2010-10-27  2:31 ` Brian Haley
2010-10-27  8:35   ` Maciej Żenczykowski
2010-10-27 16:03     ` Lorenzo Colitti
2010-10-27 20:39       ` Maciej Żenczykowski
2010-10-28 22:23         ` Lorenzo Colitti
2010-10-28 22:41           ` Lorenzo Colitti
2010-10-28 22:50           ` Maciej Żenczykowski

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