From: subashab@codeaurora•org
To: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail•com>
Cc: davem@davemloft•net, kuba@kernel•org, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6•org,
dsahern@kernel•org, netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: ipv6: addrconf: Add accept_ra_prefix_route.
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2021 14:33:32 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cbcfa6d3c4fa057051bbee6851e9d4e7@codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d7bb2c1d-1e9a-5191-96bd-c3d567df2da1@gmail.com>
On 2021-03-10 12:28, David Ahern wrote:
> On 3/10/21 11:49 AM, Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan wrote:
>> Added new procfs flag to toggle the automatic addition of prefix
>> routes on a per device basis. The new flag is accept_ra_prefix_route.
>>
>> A value of 0 for the flag maybe used in some forwarding scenarios
>> when a userspace daemon is managing the routing.
>> Manual deletion of the kernel installed route was not sufficient as
>> kernel was adding back the route.
>>
>> Defaults to 1 as to not break existing behavior.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan
>> <subashab@codeaurora•org>
>> ---
>> Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst | 10 ++++++++++
>> include/linux/ipv6.h | 1 +
>> include/uapi/linux/ipv6.h | 1 +
>> net/ipv6/addrconf.c | 16 +++++++++++++---
>> 4 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
>> b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
>> index c7952ac..9f0d92d 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
>> +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
>> @@ -2022,6 +2022,16 @@ accept_ra_mtu - BOOLEAN
>> - enabled if accept_ra is enabled.
>> - disabled if accept_ra is disabled.
>>
>> +accept_ra_prefix_route - BOOLEAN
>> + Apply the prefix route based on the RA. If disabled, kernel
>> + does not install the route. This can be used if a userspace
>> + daemon is managing the routing.
>> +
>> + Functional default:
>> +
>> + - enabled if accept_ra_prefix_route is enabled
>> + - disabled if accept_ra_prefix_route is disabled
>> +
>> accept_redirects - BOOLEAN
>> Accept Redirects.
>>
>
> this seems to duplicate accept_ra_pinfo
Thanks David. We will try out that entry instead and check.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-10 21:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-10 18:49 [PATCH net-next] net: ipv6: addrconf: Add accept_ra_prefix_route Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan
2021-03-10 19:28 ` David Ahern
2021-03-10 21:33 ` subashab [this message]
2021-03-12 2:22 ` subashab
2021-03-12 16:41 ` David Ahern
2021-03-12 23:30 ` subashab
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