Re: [PATCH] IPv6: (5/5+1) Autoconfig link-local addr to IPv6 tunnels

[YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 <yoshfuji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In article <Pine.LNX.4.44.0309031232010.5039-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (at Wed, 3 
Sep 2003 13:17:56 +0300 (EEST)), Ville Nuorvala <vnuorval@xxxxxxxxxx> says:

> Come to think of it a more elegant solution might be:
> 
>         if (ifp->idev->cnf.forwarding == 0 &&
>             (dev->flags&IFF_LOOPBACK) == 0 &&
> +           ifp->idev->cnf.rtr_solicits > 0 &&
>             (ipv6_addr_type(&ifp->addr) & IPV6_ADDR_LINKLOCAL)) {
>                 struct in6_addr all_routers;
> 
> and set both idev->cnf.rtr_solicits = 0 and idev->cnf.accept_ra = 0 for
> ARPHRD_TUNNEL6 devices

Yes, something like that.


> > Comment: this strategy is the "default."
> > We can (or even should) do this stretegy whenever we failed to
> > ipv6_generate_eui64() in addrconf_dev_config().
> 
> Should I send a separate patch to enable the random interface ids in
> addrconf_dev_config()?

No, just move them to addrconf_dev_config().

--yoshfuji