netdev - Re: [PATCH 1 of 5] IPv6: do not wrap around when the lifetime has expired

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Message-ID: <20080327193854.GC8574@ens-lyon.fr>
Date:	Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:38:54 +0100
From:	Benoit Boissinot <benoit.boissinot@...-lyon.org>
To:	YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 
	<yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, pekkas@...core.fi
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1 of 5] IPv6: do not wrap around when the lifetime has
	expired

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 03:25:39AM +0900, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 wrote:
> In article <dd125a7f86968371046d.1206305169@...zuine> (at Sun, 23 Mar 2008 21:46:09 +0100), Benoit Boissinot <benoit.boissinot@...-lyon.org> says:
> 
> > IPv6: do not wrap around when the lifetime has expired
> > 
> > Instead of reporting overly large lifetimes to userspace,
> > report a lifetime of 0 when a lifetime has expired.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Benoit Boissinot <benoit.boissinot@...-lyon.org>
> 
> NAK.
> 
> (signed) lifetime < 0 means it has expired, but 0 does not mean
> that the lifetime has expired, but it is being expired
> (within 1 second).

It makes sense, so is the output of ip addr correct ?

inet6 2a01:5d8:58a0:ebfc:b5fb:88a3:27a5:ce96/64 scope global secondary deprecated dynamic
   valid_lft 84064sec preferred_lft 4294964960sec

Can iproute2 be "fixed" ? or is it the expected output ?

thanks,

Benoit

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