From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: subashab@codeaurora.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: ipv6: Generate random IID for addresses on RAWIP devices
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2018 17:15:47 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180604.171547.1337479371495920654.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1528062874-19250-1-git-send-email-subashab@codeaurora.org>
From: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan <subashab@codeaurora.org>
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2018 15:54:34 -0600
> RAWIP devices such as rmnet do not have a hardware address and
> instead require the kernel to generate a random IID for the
> temporary addresses. For permanent addresses, the device IID is
> used along with prefix received.
>
> Signed-off-by: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan <subashab@codeaurora.org>
Please address yoshfuji's feedback, thank you.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-04 21:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-03 21:54 [PATCH net-next] net: ipv6: Generate random IID for addresses on RAWIP devices Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan
2018-06-03 23:50 ` 吉藤英明
2018-06-08 2:52 ` Lorenzo Colitti
2018-06-09 0:34 ` Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan
2018-06-04 21:15 ` David Miller [this message]
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