From: Maciej Zenczykowski
> Sent: 18 November 2015 03:57
> I don't know what the right fix is...
>
> However, speaking as an end user with laptops on wifi and/or home
> gateways on dialup connections where the IP address occasionally (or
> constantly) changes, I find it very frustrating that by default as IP
> addresses get removed from interfaces all the related state (whether
> conntrack or open connections) doesn't get cleaned up.
Right, but I don't want it happening when an interface temporarily
goes down for some reason.
Trip over the cable to a USB network interface and you want the connections
to still be alive when you plug it back in.
We've had to put USB interfaces into a 'bond' to get a stable address.
Now, if you have a DHCP assigned address you may want to force a
lease renewal after a network 'glitch'. If you get back a different
address then it might be reasonable for the stack to error any
connections using the old address - after all another system
could be using the old IP address.
I suspect that the only way to avoid horrid timing windows is
to simulate the receipt of RST packets.
David
