netdev - Re: [PATCH 5 of 5] IPv6: temporary address: update the timer for tentative addresses

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Date:	Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:25:58 +0900 (JST)
From:	YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 
	<yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
To:	benoit.boissinot@...-lyon.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, pekkas@...core.fi, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5 of 5] IPv6: temporary address: update the timer for
 tentative addresses

In article <4765830d9f3848ef14e6.1206305173@...zuine> (at Sun, 23 Mar 2008 21:46:13 +0100), Benoit Boissinot <benoit.boissinot@...-lyon.org> says:

> IPv6: temporary address: update the timer for tentative addresses
> 
> Even for tentative addresses, we should update the timer,
> otherwise if the preferred lifetime is too short we will
> miss the opportunity to regenerate the adress.

Well, but it this ever happens, it implies that the lifetime
is too short, doesn't it?
We don't want such temporary address too much.

--yoshfuji
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