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authorErik Nordmark <nordmark@arista.com>2016-12-02 14:00:08 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2016-12-03 23:21:37 -0500
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ipv6 addrconf: Implemented enhanced DAD (RFC7527)
Implemented RFC7527 Enhanced DAD. IPv6 duplicate address detection can fail if there is some temporary loopback of Ethernet frames. RFC7527 solves this by including a random nonce in the NS messages used for DAD, and if an NS is received with the same nonce it is assumed to be a looped back DAD probe and is ignored. RFC7527 is enabled by default. Can be disabled by setting both of conf/{all,interface}/enhanced_dad to zero. Signed-off-by: Erik Nordmark <nordmark@arista.com> Signed-off-by: Bob Gilligan <gilligan@arista.com> Reviewed-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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@@ -1734,6 +1734,15 @@ drop_unsolicited_na - BOOLEAN
By default this is turned off.
+enhanced_dad - BOOLEAN
+ Include a nonce option in the IPv6 neighbor solicitation messages used for
+ duplicate address detection per RFC7527. A received DAD NS will only signal
+ a duplicate address if the nonce is different. This avoids any false
+ detection of duplicates due to loopback of the NS messages that we send.
+ The nonce option will be sent on an interface unless both of
+ conf/{all,interface}/enhanced_dad are set to FALSE.
+ Default: TRUE
+
icmp/*:
ratelimit - INTEGER
Limit the maximal rates for sending ICMPv6 packets.