From: David Ward <david.w...@ll.mit.edu> Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2015 12:18:58 -0400
> This notification causes the FIB to be updated, which is not needed > because the address already exists, and more importantly it may undo > intentional changes that were made to the FIB after the address was > originally added. (As a point of comparison, when an address becomes > deprecated because its preferred lifetime expired, a notification on > this chain is not generated.) > > The motivation for this commit is fixing an incompatibility between > DHCP clients which set and update the address lifetime according to > the lease, and a commercial VPN client which replaces kernel routes > in a way that outbound traffic is sent only through the tunnel (and > disconnects if any further route changes are detected via netlink). > > Signed-off-by: David Ward <david.w...@ll.mit.edu> Yeah, this makes sense, applied. I bet the SCTP notifier could have ended up with dups in it's local address list because of this. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
