On Tue, 1 Oct 2013 01:30:07 -0700
Nathan Hintz <nlhi...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 01 Oct 2013 09:51:23 +0200
> Steven Barth <cy...@openwrt.org> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Nathan,
> > 
> > actually it's not that easy. Especially if the contents are the same 
> > this means an update. This is because most contents of the RA contain a 
> > validity timer in seconds.
> > 
> > Thus if you sent 2 successive RAs with the same contents with a 3 second 
> > difference the second RA increases the validity of the contents by 3 
> > seconds (as it arrived 3 seconds later).
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Steven
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> 
> True, but does it need to be passed on to netifd?  Depends on who 
> maintains/monitors the validity timers I guess.
> 

Does the interface need to be torn down and rebuilt just for a validity timer 
update (barring the case when the update makes it go invalid)?

-- 
Nathan
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