netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/2] bridge: leave carrier on for empty bridge

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Message-ID: <4E651CB4.3070707@sfc.wide.ad.jp>
Date:	Tue, 06 Sep 2011 04:02:12 +0900
From:	Ang Way Chuang <wcang@....wide.ad.jp>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
CC:	Nicolas de Pesloüan 
	<nicolas.2p.debian@...il.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] bridge: leave carrier on for empty bridge

On 06/09/11 02:57, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> The root cause of the problem is applications that don't deal with unresolved
> IPv6 addresses. I already had to solve this in our distribution for NTP in a
> not bridge related problem. It is better to fix the applications to understand
> IPv6 address semantics than to try and force bridge to behave in a way that
> is friendly to these applications.
Care to share the patch that you did for NTP? Perhaps, I may apply the same trick and tried it out on dnsmasq and radvd if I have time.
Thanks.
>
> The earlier mail said it is a problem with dnsmasq and radvd. Let's work on understanding
> if they need to be updated before jumping in with hacks to the bridge code.
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