linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ipv6: default route for link local address is not added while assigning a address

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Message-ID: <20140130232909.GH25336@order.stressinduktion.org>
Date:	Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:29:09 +0100
From:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
To:	Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>
Cc:	Sohny Thomas <sthomas@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, davem@...emloft.net,
	kumuda <kumuda@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv6: default route for link local address is not added while assigning a address

Sorry for replying so late...

On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 11:38:47AM +0100, Nicolas Dichtel wrote:
> Le 29/01/2014 07:41, Sohny Thomas a écrit :
> >Resending this on netdev mailing list:
> >Default route for link local address is configured automatically if
> >NETWORKING_IPV6=yes is in ifcfg-eth*.
> >When the route table for the interface is flushed and a new address is 
> >added to
> >the same device with out removing linklocal addr, default route for link 
> >local
> >address has to added by default.
> >
> >I have found the issue to be caused by this checkin
> >
> >http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/net/ipv6?id=62b54dd91567686a1cb118f76a72d5f4764a86dd
> >
> >
> >According to this change :
> >He removes adding a link local route if any other address is added , 
> >applicable
> >across all interfaces though there's mentioned only lo interface
> >So below patch fixes for other devices
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Sohny THomas <sohthoma@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Your email client has corrupted the patch, it cannot be applied.
> Please read Documentation/email-clients.txt
> 
> About the patch, I still think that the flush is too agressive. Link local
> routes are marked as 'proto kernel', removing them without the link local
> address is wrong.

Actually I am not so sure, there is no defined semantic of flush. I would
be ok with all three solutions: leave it as is, always add link-local
address (it does not matter if we don't have a link-local address on
that interface, as a global scoped one is just fine enough) or make flush not
remove the link-local address (but this seems a bit too special cased for me).

Greetings,

  Hannes
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