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net: neighbour: Add mcast_resolicit to configure the number of multicast resolicitati...
authorYOSHIFUJI Hideaki/吉藤英明 <hideaki.yoshifuji@miraclelinux.com>
Thu, 19 Mar 2015 13:41:46 +0000 (22:41 +0900)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Sat, 21 Mar 2015 01:47:40 +0000 (21:47 -0400)
commitad4c2f8ca53194da1145e9b114a44ebda3ba557b
tree496f60fc435a832ff6e764c02c2cea9f9befebc4
parentd3c74b223f3f81c3938de795e6622a45466b2ac6
net: neighbour: Add mcast_resolicit to configure the number of multicast resolicitations in PROBE state.

We send unicast neighbor (ARP or NDP) solicitations ucast_probes
times in PROBE state.  Zhu Yanjun reported that some implementation
does not reply against them and the entry will become FAILED, which
is undesirable.

We had been dealt with such nodes by sending multicast probes mcast_
solicit times after unicast probes in PROBE state.  In 2003, I made
a change not to send them to improve compatibility with IPv6 NDP.

Let's introduce per-protocol per-interface sysctl knob "mcast_
reprobe" to configure the number of multicast (re)solicitation for
reconfirmation in PROBE state.  The default is 0, since we have
been doing so for 10+ years.

Reported-by: Zhu Yanjun <Yanjun.Zhu@windriver.com>
CC: Ulf Samuelsson <ulf.samuelsson@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <hideaki.yoshifuji@miraclelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
include/net/neighbour.h
include/uapi/linux/neighbour.h
net/core/neighbour.c