On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 9:17 AM, Bill Fink <billfink@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 12 Feb 2014, Ian Campbell wrote: >> IOW -- enabling/disabling multicast seems to me to be an odd proxy for >> disabling SLAAC or DAD and AIUI your patch fixes the opposite case, >> which is to avoid SLAAC and DAD on interfaces which don't do multicast >> (which makes sense since those protocols involve multicast). > > Forgive me if this doesn't make sense in this context since > I'm not a kernel developer, but I was just wondering if any of > the sysctls: > > /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/<ifc>/disable_ipv6 > /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/<ifc>/accept_dad > /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/<ifc>/accept_ra > /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/<ifc>/autoconf > > would be apropos for the requirement being discussed. These are run time configuration options, post initialization. What we're considering is internal net_device capability fields, to even avoid creating these in the first place. Luis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
