netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] bonding: send IPv6 neighbor advertisement on failover

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Date:	Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:03:09 -0700
From:	David Stevens <dlstevens@...ibm.com>
To:	Brian Haley <brian.haley@...com>
Cc:	Alex Sidorenko <alexandre.sidorenko@...com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, fubar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	netdev-owner@...r.kernel.org,
	YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] bonding: send IPv6 neighbor advertisement on failover

Brian Haley <brian.haley@...com> wrote on 10/10/2008 07:34:58 AM:

> I don't really want to since this is bonding-specific behavior, and 
> we're not performing DAD for the address.  This is just another sysfs 
> entry: /sys/class/net/bond*/bonding/num_unsol_na, not a sysctl.

        I think they really are the same case, and doing DAD
would solve the problem just as well. But I can hold my nose a
little bit and live with it. :-) Getting the problem solved is
more important than the details.

                                                        +-DLS

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