netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 2/3] ipv6: increase maximum lifetime of flow labels

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Date:	Fri, 8 Nov 2013 13:34:38 +0100
From:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
To:	Florent Fourcot <florent.fourcot@...t-bretagne.fr>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/3] ipv6: increase maximum lifetime of flow labels

On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 05:53:13PM +0100, Florent Fourcot wrote:
> If the last RFC 6437 does not give any constraints
> for lifetime of flow labels, the previous RFC 3697
> spoke of a minimum of 120 seconds between
> reattribution of a flow label.
> 
> The maximum linger is currently set to 60 seconds
> and does not allow this configuration without
> CAP_NET_ADMIN right.
> 
> This patch increase the maximum linger to 150
> seconds, allowing more flexibility to standard
> users.

Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>

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