From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757975Ab0JZTic (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Oct 2010 15:38:32 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:33381 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752865Ab0JZTi3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Oct 2010 15:38:29 -0400 Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 12:38:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20101026.123852.58436932.davem@davemloft.net> To: gwurster@scs.carleton.ca Cc: kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, pekkas@netcore.fi, jmorris@namei.org, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, kaber@trash.net, shemminger@vyatta.com, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, herbert@gondor.hengli.com.au, ebiederm@xmission.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH linux-2.6 v2] IPv6: Temp addresses are immediately deleted. From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <201010161442.18748.gwurster@scs.carleton.ca> References: <20100927171010.GB7106@adams.ccsl.carleton.ca> <20100928.233028.112599117.davem@davemloft.net> <201010161442.18748.gwurster@scs.carleton.ca> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.3 on Emacs 23.1 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Glenn Wurster Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2010 14:42:17 -0400 > No, the first patch was to create a temporary address if none exists. Like > Brian Haley pointed out, that patch accommodates the case where we set > use_tempaddr to a non-zero value after the interface had been brought up. > > This patch accommodates the case where the router is only broadcasting > advertisements every x seconds, and yet the user has set the valid_lft to be > something less than x. Ok, thanks for your patience. I've applied both of your patches, thanks.