netdev - Re: [PATCH] IPv6: optionaly validate RAs on raw sockets

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Date:	Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:17:13 -0400 (EDT)
From:	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
cc:	rdenis@...phalempin.com, dlstevens@...ibm.com,
	vladislav.yasevich@...com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IPv6: optionaly validate RAs on raw sockets

On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, David Miller wrote:

> > One remaining corner case is NFS/IPv6 root, whereby userland won't have 
> > a chance to start before the network, and hence may miss the solicited 
> > RA. Or would it? By default, the next unsolicited RA can be anytime 
> > from now to after 10 minutes, so that's not sufficient. I wouldn't 
> > personnaly care, but...
> 
> We already have cases like that with network device firmware that
> has to be loaded in from the filesystem in userspace, and the
> answer is to use a properly populated initrd.
> 
> Same goes for things like this.
> 
> That's the fact of life these days, like it or not.

Same story for NFS root when using strong authentication -- something has 
to be running in userland to manage that.



- James
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James Morris
<jmorris@...ei.org>
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