In article <Pine.LNX.4.44.0406170801540.3821-100000@netcore.fi> you wrote: > there are certain problems which may lead to longer timeouts. This > depends principally on (at least) two things: > > 1) whether the node has a "on-link assumption", i.e., a default route > to your interface. > > 2) whether TCP implementation aborts connection when it receives a > "soft" ICMP error (against the host requirements RFC), I think both are not a problem for unconfigured ipv6 networks, since there is no ipv6 default route for link local addresses, and therefore the connect fails directly within the kernel, without icmp involvement. > 1) remove the IPv6 default routes pointing on each interface when the > interface is created, I dont think it does this? > 2) abort TCP connections which are in SYN-SENT state when an ICMP > error is received. Well, hmm.. i think there are pro and con voices on this .) Greetings Bernd -- eckes privat - http://www.eckes.org/ Project Freefire - http://www.freefire.org/ - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
