Re: PROBLEM: 2.6.11-rc2 hangs on bridge shutdown (br0)

From: David S. Miller
Date: Sat Feb 05 2005 - 23:14:24 EST


On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 19:50:39 +0900 (JST)
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 <yoshfuji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In article <20050205064643.GA29758@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (at Sat, 5 Feb 2005 17:46:43 +1100), Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> says:
>
> > If we wanted to preserve the split device semantics, then we
> > can create a local GC list in IPv6 so that it can search based
> > on rt6i_idev as well as the other keys. Alternatively we can
> > remove the dst->dev == dev check in dst_dev_event and dst_ifdown
> > and move that test down to the individual ifdown functions.
>
> Yes, IPv6 needs "split device" semantics
> (for per-device statistics such as Ip6InDelivers etc),
> and I like later solution.

Ok. I never read whether ipv6, like ipv4, is specified to support
a model of host based ownership of addresses. Does anyone know?
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