linux/net/ipv6
Tore Anderson 026359bc6e ipv6: Send ICMPv6 RSes only when RAs are accepted
This patch improves the logic determining when to send ICMPv6 Router
Solicitations, so that they are 1) always sent when the kernel is
accepting Router Advertisements, and 2) never sent when the kernel is
not accepting RAs. In other words, the operational setting of the
"accept_ra" sysctl is used.

The change also makes the special "Hybrid Router" forwarding mode
("forwarding" sysctl set to 2) operate exactly the same as the standard
Router mode (forwarding=1). The only difference between the two was
that RSes was being sent in the Hybrid Router mode only. The sysctl
documentation describing the special Hybrid Router mode has therefore
been removed.

Rationale for the change:

Currently, the value of forwarding sysctl is the only thing determining
whether or not to send RSes. If it has the value 0 or 2, they are sent,
otherwise they are not. This leads to inconsistent behaviour in the
following cases:

* accept_ra=0, forwarding=0
* accept_ra=0, forwarding=2
* accept_ra=1, forwarding=2
* accept_ra=2, forwarding=1

In the first three cases, the kernel will send RSes, even though it will
not accept any RAs received in reply. In the last case, it will not send
any RSes, even though it will accept and process any RAs received. (Most
routers will send unsolicited RAs periodically, so suppressing RSes in
the last case will merely delay auto-configuration, not prevent it.)

Also, it is my opinion that having the forwarding sysctl control RS
sending behaviour (completely independent of whether RAs are being
accepted or not) is simply not what most users would intuitively expect
to be the case.

Signed-off-by: Tore Anderson <tore@fud.no>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-09-16 19:14:41 -04:00
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netfilter netfilter: fix looped (broad|multi)cast's MAC handling 2011-06-16 17:27:04 +02:00
addrconf_core.c ipv6: Remove IPV6_ADDR_RESERVED 2010-02-26 03:59:07 -08:00
addrconf.c ipv6: Send ICMPv6 RSes only when RAs are accepted 2011-09-16 19:14:41 -04:00
addrlabel.c rtnetlink: Compute and store minimum ifinfo dump size 2011-06-09 20:38:07 -07:00
af_inet6.c net: bind() fix error return on wrong address family 2011-07-04 21:37:41 -07:00
ah6.c xfrm: Use separate low and high order bits of the sequence numbers in xfrm_skb_cb 2011-03-13 20:22:28 -07:00
anycast.c inet: constify ip headers and in6_addr 2011-04-22 11:04:14 -07:00
datagram.c ipv6: check for IPv4 mapped addresses when connecting IPv6 sockets 2011-08-05 03:56:30 -07:00
esp6.c Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2011-05-05 14:59:02 -07:00
exthdrs_core.c net: return operator cleanup 2010-09-23 14:33:39 -07:00
exthdrs.c ipv6: avoid a dst_entry refcount change in ipv6_destopt_rcv() 2011-08-01 00:12:00 -07:00
fib6_rules.c ipv6: Convert to use flowi6 where applicable. 2011-03-12 15:08:54 -08:00
icmp.c ipv6: some RCU conversions 2011-08-01 00:12:00 -07:00
inet6_connection_sock.c ipv6: use RCU in inet6_csk_xmit() 2011-08-01 00:12:00 -07:00
inet6_hashtables.c net: Compute protocol sequence numbers and fragment IDs using MD5. 2011-08-06 18:33:19 -07:00
ip6_fib.c net: fix NULL dereferences in check_peer_redir() 2011-08-03 03:34:12 -07:00
ip6_flowlabel.c ipv6: Convert to use flowi6 where applicable. 2011-03-12 15:08:54 -08:00
ip6_input.c inet: constify ip headers and in6_addr 2011-04-22 11:04:14 -07:00
ip6_output.c net: ipv6: convert to SKB frag APIs 2011-08-24 17:52:12 -07:00
ip6_tunnel.c rcu: convert uses of rcu_assign_pointer(x, NULL) to RCU_INIT_POINTER 2011-08-02 04:29:23 -07:00
ip6mr.c rtnetlink: Compute and store minimum ifinfo dump size 2011-06-09 20:38:07 -07:00
ipcomp6.c inet: constify ip headers and in6_addr 2011-04-22 11:04:14 -07:00
ipv6_sockglue.c ipv6: Fix ipv6_getsockopt for IPV6_2292PKTOPTIONS 2011-08-19 03:19:07 -07:00
Kconfig ipv6: ip6mr: support multiple tables 2010-05-11 14:40:55 +02:00
Makefile [IPV6] MROUTE: Support multicast forwarding. 2008-04-05 22:33:38 +09:00
mcast.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6 2011-05-20 13:43:21 -07:00
mip6.c inet: constify ip headers and in6_addr 2011-04-22 11:04:14 -07:00
ndisc.c ipv6: some RCU conversions 2011-08-01 00:12:00 -07:00
netfilter.c inet: constify ip headers and in6_addr 2011-04-22 11:04:14 -07:00
proc.c ipv6: reduce per device ICMP mib sizes 2011-05-19 16:21:22 -04:00
protocol.c net: add __rcu annotations to protocol 2010-10-27 11:37:31 -07:00
raw.c net: cleanup some rcu_dereference_raw 2011-08-12 02:55:28 -07:00
reassembly.c inet: constify ip headers and in6_addr 2011-04-22 11:04:14 -07:00
route.c net: fix NULL dereferences in check_peer_redir() 2011-08-03 03:34:12 -07:00
sit.c Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2011-08-20 10:39:12 -07:00
syncookies.c tcp: initialize variable ecn_ok in syncookies path 2011-08-10 21:59:57 -07:00
sysctl_net_ipv6.c net ipv6: Fix duplicate /proc/sys/net/ipv6/neigh directory entries. 2011-03-21 18:23:34 -07:00
tcp_ipv6.c rps: Add flag to skb to indicate rxhash is based on L4 tuple 2011-08-17 20:06:03 -07:00
tunnel6.c tunnels: add _rcu annotations 2010-10-25 13:09:45 -07:00
udp_impl.h net: Make setsockopt() optlen be unsigned. 2009-09-30 16:12:20 -07:00
udp.c rps: Add flag to skb to indicate rxhash is based on L4 tuple 2011-08-17 20:06:03 -07:00
udplite.c net: fix nulls list corruptions in sk_prot_alloc 2010-12-16 14:26:56 -08:00
xfrm6_input.c netfilter: ipv6: use NFPROTO values for NF_HOOK invocation 2010-03-25 16:00:49 +01:00
xfrm6_mode_beet.c inet: constify ip headers and in6_addr 2011-04-22 11:04:14 -07:00
xfrm6_mode_ro.c [IPSEC]: Make x->lastused an unsigned long 2008-01-28 14:53:52 -08:00
xfrm6_mode_transport.c [IPSEC]: Use IPv6 calling convention as the convention for x->mode->output 2007-10-10 16:55:54 -07:00
xfrm6_mode_tunnel.c inet: constify ip headers and in6_addr 2011-04-22 11:04:14 -07:00
xfrm6_output.c xfrm: Assign the inner mode output function to the dst entry 2011-05-10 15:03:34 -07:00
xfrm6_policy.c inet: constify ip headers and in6_addr 2011-04-22 11:04:14 -07:00
xfrm6_state.c xfrm: Assign the inner mode output function to the dst entry 2011-05-10 15:03:34 -07:00
xfrm6_tunnel.c ipv6: Fix return of xfrm6_tunnel_rcv() 2011-05-24 01:11:51 -04:00