On 11.07.2016 16:48, David Miller wrote:
> From: Bjørn Mork
> Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 16:43:50 +0200
>
>> The Juniper SSL VPN client use a "tun" interface and seems to
>> be picky about visible changes.to it. Commit cc9da6cc4f56
>> ("ipv6: addrconf: use stable address generator for ARPHRD_NONE")
>
Hannes,
I just realized that I missed you on the CC list of the v2 patch. Sorry.
It was definitely not my intention. I really appreciate the feedback you
have kindly provided before.
I guess you might have seen it in netdev anyway, but in case not, here
is a direct patchwork link: http://patchwor
David Miller writes:
> What really irks me is that we "fixing" something without knowing what
> actually is the problem.
Agreed
> Someone needs to figure out exactly what is making the Juniper thing
> unhappy. It really shouldn't care if a link local address is assigned
> to the tun device, th
From: Bjørn Mork
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 16:43:50 +0200
> The Juniper SSL VPN client use a "tun" interface and seems to
> be picky about visible changes.to it. Commit cc9da6cc4f56
> ("ipv6: addrconf: use stable address generator for ARPHRD_NONE")
> made such interfaces get an auto-generated IPv6 l
valdis.kletni...@vt.edu writes:
> Tested against next-20160708, and the Juniper code works fine. Feel free
> to stick a Tested-By: on the V2 patch...
Thanks to both of you for verifying that it solves the Juniper problem.
A tip: Patchworks is nice enough to automatically pick up tags from
review
On Mon, 11 Jul 2016 16:43:50 +0200, Bjørn Mork said:
> Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=121131
> Fixes: cc9da6cc4f56 ("ipv6: addrconf: use stable address generator for ARPHRD
_NONE")
> Reported-by: Valdis Kletnieks
> Reported-by: Jonas Lippuner
> Suggested-by: Hannes Frederic So
On Mon, 11 Jul 2016 16:43:50 +0200, Bjørn Mork said:
> And finally, Valdis and Jonas: could you please test this version too? It
> works for me in my simulated setup, but I don't have the Juniper client
> so I cannot verify that it actually solves the problem.
The v1 patch worked. I'll be able t
Thanks Bjørn!
I have applied the patch to v4.6.3 of linux-stable and Juniper VPN works
with the patch. Please let me know if I should test the patch applied to
any other code revision.
Best,
Jonas
Original Message
Subject: [PATCH v2 net] ipv6: addrconf: fix Juniper SSL VPN
The Juniper SSL VPN client use a "tun" interface and seems to
be picky about visible changes.to it. Commit cc9da6cc4f56
("ipv6: addrconf: use stable address generator for ARPHRD_NONE")
made such interfaces get an auto-generated IPv6 link local address
by default, similar to most other interface typ
