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Date:	Sun, 10 Jul 2016 00:19:32 +0200
From:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
To:	Bjørn Mork <bjorn@...k.no>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu>,
	Jonas Lippuner <jonas@...puner.ca>,
	吉藤英明 
	<hideaki.yoshifuji@...aclelinux.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ipv6: addrconf: fix Juniper SSL VPN client regression

Hi Bjorn,

On Sat, Jul 9, 2016, at 23:13, Bjørn Mork wrote:
> The Juniper SSL VPN client use a "tun" interface and seems to
> be picky about visible changes.to it. Commit cc9da6cc4f56
> ("ipv6: addrconf: use stable address generator for ARPHRD_NONE")
> made such interfaces get an auto-generated IPv6 link local address
> by default, similar to most other interface types. This made the
> Juniper SSL VPN client fail for unknown reasons.
> 
> Fixing this regression by effectively reverting the behaviour to
> what we had before, while keeping the new "addrgenmode random"
> feature.

I wonder if we can simply add a flag, something like
IFF_SUPPRESS_AUTO_IPV6_LL, to net_device->priv_flags and use that. So we
can keep behavior for qmi, vxlan-gpe and gre. tun is the only device
that is really user space facing, so maybe we just limit it to this?

Thanks,
Hannes

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