netdev - Re: [PATCH] Update Neighbor Cache when IPv6 RA is received on a router

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Date:	Sat, 29 Aug 2009 00:04:27 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	david.ward@...mit.edu
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Update Neighbor Cache when IPv6 RA is received on a
 router

From: David Ward <david.ward@...mit.edu>
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 20:19:54 -0400

> When processing a received IPv6 Router Advertisement, the kernel
> creates or updates an IPv6 Neighbor Cache entry for the sender --
> but presently this does not occur if IPv6 forwarding is enabled
> (net.ipv6.conf.*.forwarding = 1), or if IPv6 Router Advertisements
> are not accepted (net.ipv6.conf.*.accept_ra = 0), because in these
> cases processing of the Router Advertisement has already halted.
> 
> This patch allows the Neighbor Cache to be updated in these cases,
> while still avoiding any modification to routes or link parameters.
> 
> This continues to satisfy RFC 4861, since any entry created in the
> Neighbor Cache as the result of a received Router Advertisement is
> still placed in the STALE state.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Ward <david.ward@...mit.edu>

This seems OK, applied to net-next-2.6

Thanks.
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