Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 12 Dec 2013 13:24:41 -0500 (EST) | Subject | Re: [patch net-next v2] ipv6: log autoconfiguration failures | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 12:58:18 -0500
> On 12/12/2013 12:22 PM, David Miller wrote: >> Give it statistics just like we have for every other kind of similar >> event. > > The fact that link-local address could not be generated for a specific > device type does not lend itself well to counting. There is no way > from to tell from the counter which device does not support IPv6 autoconfig.
If the statistic is per-device, which I recommended it be implemented as, you indeed can.
And I do not buy the argument that this is "useless" because the admin is just going to kill the interface and create a new one. When you notice there is a problem, you look at the statistics before doing that!
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