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From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind•com>
To: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion•org>,
	David Ahern <dsahern@gmail•com>
Cc: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <hideaki.yoshifuji@miraclelinux•com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber•org>,
	"netdev@vger•kernel.org" <netdev@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: why are IPv6 addresses removed on link down
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 18:05:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54B5504F.2020200@6wind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1421161230.13626.30.camel@stressinduktion.org>

Le 13/01/2015 16:00, Hannes Frederic Sowa a écrit :
[snip]
>
> This was already discussed several times here, e.g. one patch I just
> found:
>
> http://lists.openwall.net/netdev/2011/01/24/8
> and
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/17558/
>
> Albeit I hate sysctls for things like this, it might I tend to find it
> acceptable because it solves a problem which happened to lots of people.
> And I don't like the current behavior neither.
>
> I think this can work, but we should follow up all the old discussions
> to not introduce any kind of new undesired behavior this time.
If I remember well, one of the problem was that it was not possible anymore to
unload the IPv6 module after the patches. But since commit 8ce440610357 ("ipv6:
do not allow ipv6 module to be removed"), it's not possible anymore.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-01-13 17:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-13  5:06 why are IPv6 addresses removed on link down David Ahern
2015-01-13  7:10 ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-01-13 10:35   ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2015-01-13 11:58     ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
2015-01-13 12:15       ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
2015-01-13 12:36         ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2015-01-13 14:53           ` David Ahern
2015-01-13 15:00             ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2015-01-13 17:05               ` Nicolas Dichtel [this message]
2015-01-13 15:00             ` Sowmini Varadhan
2015-01-13 15:09               ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2015-01-13 15:13                 ` Sowmini Varadhan
2015-01-13 17:25             ` David Miller
2015-01-13 17:34               ` Hannes Frederic Sowa

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