netdev - Re: 2.6.29 regression? Bonding tied to IPV6 in 29-rc5

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Date:	Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:57:14 -0500
From:	Brian Haley <brian.haley@...com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
CC:	Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@...com>,
	Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@...cle.com>,
	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu,
	arvidjaar@...l.ru, rjw@...k.pl, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	bonding-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, jamagallon@....com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.29 regression? Bonding tied to IPV6 in 29-rc5

Vlad Yasevich wrote:
> Having worked in other environments where ipv6 has to be explicitly
> enabled per interface, I've thought that this level of control was
> always missing from linux.  Being able to configure only the interface
> that users want seems like a good thing to have.
> Would a module parameter that disables ipv6 or at least addrconf be
> enough of a solution?

There does seem to be a sysctl for it, just doesn't seem to work. 
Possible patch below.

This actually brings up the issue that the "all" ipv6 sysctl, for 
example net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6, doesn't actually do anything (at 
least it didn't seem to for me).  Maybe it's time to fix that too to be 
like IPv4, things like IN_DEV_RPFILTER() and friends aren't looking so 
bad...

I tested this patch on lo and a few Ethernet devices and saw no IPv6 
addresses.  Don't know if EPERM is the right errno since we don't know 
if the user set this or DAD failed.

The disable_ipv6 knob was meant to be used for the kernel to disable 
IPv6 on an interface when DAD failed for the link-local address based on 
the MAC, but we should also be able to administratively disable it on an 
interface, or the entire system.  This patch fixes the per-interface 
problem.

Signed-off-by: Brian Haley <brian.haley@...com>

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