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

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Message-Id: <20131108.134440.189022097003195180.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 08 Nov 2013 13:44:40 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	florent.fourcot@...t-bretagne.fr
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/3] ipv6: increase maximum lifetime of flow
 labels

From: Florent Fourcot <florent.fourcot@...t-bretagne.fr>
Date: Thu,  7 Nov 2013 17:53:13 +0100

> 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.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Florent Fourcot <florent.fourcot@...t-bretagne.fr>

Applied.
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