From: Ang Way Chuang <wcang@sfc•wide.ad.jp>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta•com>
Cc: "Nicolas de Pesloüan" <nicolas.2p.debian@gmail•com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft•net>,
netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] bridge: leave carrier on for empty bridge
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2011 04:02:12 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E651CB4.3070707@sfc.wide.ad.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110905105735.1b912715@nehalam.ftrdhcpuser.net>
On 06/09/11 02:57, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> The root cause of the problem is applications that don't deal with unresolved
> IPv6 addresses. I already had to solve this in our distribution for NTP in a
> not bridge related problem. It is better to fix the applications to understand
> IPv6 address semantics than to try and force bridge to behave in a way that
> is friendly to these applications.
Care to share the patch that you did for NTP? Perhaps, I may apply the same trick and tried it out on dnsmasq and radvd if I have time.
Thanks.
>
> The earlier mail said it is a problem with dnsmasq and radvd. Let's work on understanding
> if they need to be updated before jumping in with hacks to the bridge code.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-05 19:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20110902172220.830228928@vyatta.com>
2011-09-02 17:22 ` [PATCH 1/2] bridge: leave carrier on for empty bridge Stephen Hemminger
2011-09-02 21:39 ` Nicolas de Pesloüan
2011-09-02 22:11 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-09-03 2:15 ` Ang Way Chuang
2011-09-03 6:30 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-09-25 8:55 ` Marc Haber
2011-09-03 18:32 ` Nicolas de Pesloüan
2011-09-04 4:14 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-09-04 7:35 ` Nicolas de Pesloüan
2011-09-04 16:36 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-09-04 17:12 ` Krzysztof Olędzki
2011-09-05 4:51 ` Ang Way Chuang
2011-09-05 17:18 ` Nicolas de Pesloüan
2011-09-05 17:57 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-09-05 19:02 ` Ang Way Chuang [this message]
2011-09-05 22:45 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-09-06 6:52 ` Nicolas de Pesloüan
2011-09-25 9:16 ` Marc Haber
2011-09-25 20:10 ` Nicolas de Pesloüan
2011-09-25 9:05 ` Marc Haber
2011-09-02 17:22 ` [PATCH 2/2] bridge: set flags in RTM_NEWNEIGH message correctly Stephen Hemminger
[not found] <20111004041444.793960297@vyatta.com>
2011-10-04 4:14 ` [PATCH 1/2] bridge: leave carrier on for empty bridge Stephen Hemminger
2011-10-06 19:28 ` David Miller
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