[ovs-dev] [PATCH] ovn IPv6 periodic RA : Set Router Lifetime value

Jakub Sitnicki jkbs at redhat.com
Mon Apr 16 15:29:52 UTC 2018


On Mon, 16 Apr 2018 19:26:53 +0530
nusiddiq at redhat.com wrote:

> From: Numan Siddique <nusiddiq at redhat.com>
> 
> ovn-controller when it sends out periodic RA packets, sets '0' in the
> Router lifetime field. As per the RFC 4861,  lifetime of 0 indicates that
> the router is not a default router and SHOULD NOT appear on the default
> router list. Without the default route, a VM will not able to reach to
> other router ports attached to the same router unless a default route
> is added by the user.
> 
> ovn-controller when encoding the 'put_nd_ra_opts' action sets the Router
> Lifetime field to 0xffff. So this patch also sets the same value when
> sending out the periodic RAs.
> 
> Reported-at: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1567735
> CC: Mark Michelson <mmichels at redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Numan Siddique <nusiddiq at redhat.com>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Jakub Sitnicki <jkbs at redhat.com>


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