Re: introducing a limit for the number of prefixes/routes from RA (IPv6)

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 07:34:23AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> 
> That looks ok to me.  Presumably you've tested that the counter returns
> to zero when the routers go away; that's a little tricky to code review
> in a few minutes.
> 
> I think it would be good to add a stat that counts RAs/prefixes
> (something) that are rejected due to the count.  Whenever I have
> trouble I do "netstat -s" befoer and after trying something and diff
> them, to find the counter that I didn't expect to change but does.
> If this code ever gets in a bad state as it is we'll get silent failure
> to accept RAs.

good point. either that, or a kernel printf() with a rate-limit.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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