Commit c3bccac2 authored Sep 03, 2010 by Thomas Graf Committed by David S. Miller Sep 03, 2010

ipv6: add special mode forwarding=2 to send RS while configured as router



Similar to accepting router advertisement, the IPv6 stack does not send router
solicitations if forwarding is enabled.

This patch enables this behavior to be overruled by setting forwarding to the
special value 2.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

parent 65e9b62d

net/ipv6/addrconf.c

+2 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -2964,7 +2964,8 @@ static void addrconf_dad_completed(struct inet6_ifaddr *ifp)
		start sending router solicitations.
		*/

		if (ifp->idev->cnf.forwarding == 0 &&
		if ((ifp->idev->cnf.forwarding == 0 \|\|
		ifp->idev->cnf.forwarding == 2) &&
		ifp->idev->cnf.rtr_solicits > 0 &&
		(dev->flags&IFF_LOOPBACK) == 0 &&
		(ipv6_addr_type(&ifp->addr) & IPV6_ADDR_LINKLOCAL)) {