Hannes Frederic Sowa <[email protected]> wrote:
>Hello Alex,
>
>On Mon, Oct 26, 2015, at 16:52, Alexander Duyck wrote:
>> Seems like this code isn't quite correct. You are calling ipv6_add_dev
>> for slave devices, and if I understand things correctly I don't believe
>> that was happening before and may be an unintended side effect.
>
>Ah, btw., autoconf and ipv6 operation on IFF_SLAVE devices is actually
>desired nowadays and don't think we can change this. See also:
><https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/531196/>
IPv6 addrconf on IFF_SLAVE devices was disabled for bonding
slaves in commit c2edacf80e15 because it caused issues with snooping
switches.
This is also referenced in
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=236750
Won't re-enabling autoconf on IFF_SLAVE devices cause that issue
to return?
-J
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