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Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 14:51:21 +0200 From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org> To: David Stevens <dlstevens@...ibm.com> Cc: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, netdev-owner@...r.kernel.org, Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org> Subject: Re: possible bug in IPv6 MLD retransmissions On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 07:30:39AM -0400, David Stevens wrote: > First, I wouldn't call this a "bug"; it is listed as a "SHOULD", not a > "MUST", so > it is not required for compliance, though it is a good feature to add. Ok. > Second, I think doing this on all LL addresses unconditionally isn't a > good > idea. If some configuration is using thousands of LL addrs for reasons of > their > own, they would suddenly be blasted with unexpected MLD reports where > they have none now. I don't see why tracking it would be such a problem -- > if nothing else, you could simply add a counter for the number of valid LL > addrs > incremented on DAD completion, and send these whenever it transitions from > 0 to 1. I understand your concerns and will revisit the patch and check if a dad_completed_counter would simplify the code. Thanks, Hannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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