On Tue, 17.05.11 09:15, Ludwig Nussel (ludwig.nussel@xxxxxxx) wrote: > > Lennart Poettering wrote: > > On Thu, 12.05.11 17:41, Ludwig Nussel (ludwig.nussel@xxxxxxx) wrote: > > > I'm currently struggling to find a sane way to set > > > net.ipv6.conf.default.use_tempaddr. > > > Traditionally at some point during boot "sysctl -e -q -p /etc/sysctl.conf" is > > > called. That doesn't really work out anymore. The aforementioned setting needs > > > to be applied after the ipv6 module is loaded (could be compiled into the > > > kernel too though) otherwise it wouldn't apply. It needs to be set before a > > > network driver is loaded though as the default value is copied to > > > interfaces specific settings at interface creation time. On top of > > > that there are also network interface specific sysctls that need to > > > be applied after an interface is created (e.g. > > > net.ipv6.conf.eth0.use_tempaddr). > > > > Something like this is kinda broken anyway, since it is racy: you can > > apply the sysctl only after the interface is already available. > > Exactly. > > > Might be a good idea to just ignore these kinds of settings. Or if this > > is not possible, then set them from NM or whatever controls the network. > > That's that hack that's currently in place. Network scripts grep > /etc/sysctl.conf for interface specific settings... Urks. What we could do to make this nicer is add a simple prefix match logic to our sysctl apply tool, so that it is easy to apply a subtree of sysctls when the time comes. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
