Hi Dave: When we moved the IPv4/IPv6 device creation from address addition time to device registration time it changed the behaviour of the default configuration values (e.g., /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/default). Previously you could specify default configuration values and as long as you do it before any addresses are added (or when the device is brought up for IPv6) it would apply to every single device other than loopback.
With the new scheme this no longer works for devices registered at boot time (e.g., devices built-in to the kernel). One such scenario can be seen at http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8519. Since this is a kernel/user-space interface it'd be nice if we can keep the compatibility while still achieving what we wanted. The following series tries to do that for IPv4 by keeping track of what the user has explicitly set and copying the default values over again at the same points as before for values which have not been explicitly set. If this looks OK I'll do the same thing for IPv6 as well. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
