From: Rémi_Denis-Courmont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:19:11 +0300
> Le mercredi 11 juillet 2007, David Stevens a écrit : > > That sounds like a good idea to me (FWIW), > > though I also still think a simple raw-socket > > application would do it just fine, possibly with > > no kernel modification at all. > > But since the kernel wouldn't be maintaining > > the DNS info, which was my real objection to the > > original version, netlink would work well too. > > One remaining corner case is NFS/IPv6 root, whereby userland won't have > a chance to start before the network, and hence may miss the solicited > RA. Or would it? By default, the next unsolicited RA can be anytime > from now to after 10 minutes, so that's not sufficient. I wouldn't > personnaly care, but... We already have cases like that with network device firmware that has to be loaded in from the filesystem in userspace, and the answer is to use a properly populated initrd. Same goes for things like this. That's the fact of life these days, like it or not. - 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
