netdev - Re: [PATCH net] ipv6: set all.accept

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Date:   Mon, 13 Nov 2017 15:32:14 +0100
From:   Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@...hat.com>
To:     Erik Kline <ek@...gle.com>
Cc:     Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Matteo Croce <mcroce@...hat.com>,
        Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ipv6: set all.accept_dad to 0 by default

On Mon, 13 Nov 2017 14:21:52 +0000
Erik Kline <ek@...gle.com> wrote:

> Should we consider rolling back the patch that caused this?
> "accept_dad = 1" is the proper IETF-expected default behaviour.
> 
> Alternatively, if we really want to make all, default, and ifname
> useful perhaps we need to investigate a tristate option (for currently
> boolean values, at least).  -1 could mean no preference, for example.

I haven't checked how ugly it would be, yet. But another way to restore
the previous behaviour, while keeping the new functionality, would be
to keep the global default as 1 and instead set the per-interface
accept_dad default value to 0. What do you think?

-- 
Stefano