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From: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp•com>
To: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us•ibm.com>
Cc: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp•com>, Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us•ibm.com>,
	David Stevens <dlstevens@us•ibm.com>,
	Alex Sidorenko <alexandre.sidorenko@hp•com>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>,
	Simon Horman <horms@verge•net.au>,
	"netdev@vger•kernel.org" <netdev@vger•kernel.org>,
	netdev-owner@vger•kernel.org,
	YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6•org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] bonding: send IPv6 neighbor advertisement on	failover
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:15:08 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48EF8D9C.2040605@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1223657772.10489.5.camel@w-sridhar2.beaverton.ibm.com>

Sridhar Samudrala wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 12:29 -0400, Vlad Yasevich wrote:
>> Brian Haley wrote:
>>> Jay Vosburgh wrote:
>>>>     As a semi-related question, what does IPv6 do if it receives a
>>>> gratutitous NA, and finds a duplicate?
> 
> I think Jay was asking about the case where the target address in the NA 
> matches the address of the receiving interface. The RFCs don't describe
> how to handle such a case and leave it to the implementation. Linux logs
> a warning message and ignores such NA.
> 

Yes, but in this case, you have duplicate addresses configured.  This
can happen when subnets merge and isn't really related to bonding driver.

In such a case, if we do an NS, it will trigger an NA and we'll end up
logging such a warning.  If we do an NA, the other end, if it's linux, will
log this warning, or deal with it in its own manner.

So, it's really a draw.

-vlad

> Thanks
> Sridhar
> 
>>> If a node has an IPv6 neighbor entry and receives an unsolicited NA it
>>> will change it's state to stale, forcing a re-lookup on the next
>>> transmit.  An un-solicited NA will change the state to reachable.
>>                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>
>> You probably meant to say "solicited".  Unsolicited NAs can only change
>> the state to STALE.
>>
>> Also, the re-lookup will happen on a delay after the transmit.
>>
>> -vlad
> 
> 


  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-10 17:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-10  0:52 [PATCH v2] bonding: send IPv6 neighbor advertisement on failover Brian Haley
2008-10-10  2:23 ` David Stevens
2008-10-10 14:34   ` Brian Haley
2008-10-10 15:03     ` David Stevens
2008-10-10 15:53       ` Jay Vosburgh
2008-10-10 16:04         ` Brian Haley
2008-10-10 16:29           ` Vlad Yasevich
2008-10-10 16:56             ` Sridhar Samudrala
2008-10-10 17:15               ` Vlad Yasevich [this message]
2008-10-10 15:27 ` Vlad Yasevich
2008-10-27 20:07 ` Brian Haley
2008-10-28  0:24   ` Jay Vosburgh

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