Re: [PATCH net] ipv6: rate-limit probes for neighbourless routes

2018-10-15 Thread David Miller
From: Sabrina Dubroca Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2018 16:22:47 +0200 > When commit 270972554c91 ("[IPV6]: ROUTE: Add Router Reachability > Probing (RFC4191).") introduced router probing, the rt6_probe() function > required that a neighbour entry existed. This neighbour entry is used to > record the timest

Re: [PATCH net] ipv6: rate-limit probes for neighbourless routes

2018-10-12 Thread Sabrina Dubroca
2018-10-12, 08:17:28 -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote: > > > On 10/12/2018 07:22 AM, Sabrina Dubroca wrote: > > When commit 270972554c91 ("[IPV6]: ROUTE: Add Router Reachability > > Probing (RFC4191).") introduced router probing, the rt6_probe() function > > required that a neighbour entry existed. This

Re: [PATCH net] ipv6: rate-limit probes for neighbourless routes

2018-10-12 Thread Eric Dumazet
On 10/12/2018 07:22 AM, Sabrina Dubroca wrote: > When commit 270972554c91 ("[IPV6]: ROUTE: Add Router Reachability > Probing (RFC4191).") introduced router probing, the rt6_probe() function > required that a neighbour entry existed. This neighbour entry is used to > record the timestamp of the l

[PATCH net] ipv6: rate-limit probes for neighbourless routes

2018-10-12 Thread Sabrina Dubroca
When commit 270972554c91 ("[IPV6]: ROUTE: Add Router Reachability Probing (RFC4191).") introduced router probing, the rt6_probe() function required that a neighbour entry existed. This neighbour entry is used to record the timestamp of the last probe via the ->updated field. Later, commit 2152caea