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

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Date:	Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:19:11 +0300
From:	Rémi Denis-Courmont <rdenis@...phalempin.com>
To:	David Stevens <dlstevens@...ibm.com>
Cc:	Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@...com>, davem@...emloft.net,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	YOSHIFUJI Hideaki /
	 吉藤英明 
	<yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IPv6: optionaly validate RAs on raw sockets

Le mercredi 11 juillet 2007, David Stevens a écrit :
>         That sounds like a good idea to me (FWIW),
> though I also still think a simple raw-socket
> application would do it just fine, possibly with
> no kernel modification at all.
>         But since the kernel wouldn't be maintaining
> the DNS info, which was my real objection to the
> original version,  netlink would work well too.

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...

-- 
Rémi Denis-Courmont
http://www.remlab.net/
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