Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266647AbTGKJvS (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jul 2003 05:51:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266650AbTGKJvS (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jul 2003 05:51:18 -0400 Received: from netcore.fi ([193.94.160.1]:28427 "EHLO netcore.fi") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266647AbTGKJtU (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jul 2003 05:49:20 -0400 Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 13:03:54 +0300 (EEST) From: Pekka Savola To: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / =?iso-2022-jp?B?GyRCNUhGIzFRTEAbKEI=?= cc: mika.liljeberg@welho.com, , , Subject: Re: 2.4.21+ - IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling b0rked In-Reply-To: <20030711.180449.126456521.yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1562 Lines: 35 On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / [iso-2022-jp] 吉藤英明 wrote: > In article (at Fri, 11 Jul 2003 11:46:00 +0300 (EEST)), Pekka Savola says: > > > I don't like this > > > while I would be ok to have configuration option > > > not to support anycast. > > > > With "not to support anycast" you probably meant "not to support > > subnet-router anycast address [automatically, in the kernel, as now]" ? > > These are entirely different things. > > I meant disabling anycast entirely. Oh, I'm not advocating that; however, being able to turn off the subnet router anycast address might be a plus. > > (Note that if there's a user-level API for setting anycast addresses, one > > could kick the subnet-router anycast address out of the kernel too. > > Whether that's desirable is another thing.) > > We have but we cannot; it is refcnt'ed. I don't understand what you mean. Refcnt'ed by a userland process, so that if you'd want the subnet-router anycast address, the whole time a process (like radvd) should be running.. or what? -- Pekka Savola "You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oy kingdom bleeds." Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/