netdev - Re: bridge carrier issue

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Message-ID: <20110925085104.GB32712@torres.zugschlus.de>
Date:	Sun, 25 Sep 2011 10:51:04 +0200
From:	Marc Haber <mh+netdev@...schlus.de>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bridge carrier issue

On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 04:00:18PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> Looked at dnsmasq and it needs some more work to handle IPv6 address
> correctly. It sleeps if it gets a tentative address.
> 
> radvd probably has similar issues.

And bind. And libvirtd. And apache. And probably a truckload of other
applications.

The ONLY application that I am aware of and that handles this case
properly is ntpd.

Greetings
Marc

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