Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Jun 2014 10:13:34 -0700 | From | Stephen Hemminger <> | Subject | Re: [patch net-next 3/5] ipv6: consider net.ipv6.conf.all sysctls when making decisions |
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On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 12:19:11 -0400 Milos Vyletel <milos.vyletel@gmail.com> wrote:
> As it is right now net.ipv6.conf.all.* are mostly ignored and instead > we're only making decisions based on interface specific settings. These > settings are coppied from net.ipv6.conf.default and changing either all > or default settings have no effect.
Although this is the right idea conceptually, it risks creating unhappy users because it changes the semantics of the API. This will probably break somebody's configuration.
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