[radvd-devel-l] Why not start if routing is disabled?

[Ben Greear]

On 05/06/2010 10:21 PM, Pekka Savola wrote:
> On Fri, 7 May 2010, Pekka Savola wrote:
>> With this clarification, do you feel your suggested patch should be
>> merged?
>
> Sorry for confusion in writing my response. I meant to say that the
> forwarding behaviour check cannot be changed unless the situation has
> changed, but nonetheless this part of the patch could be merged for
> clarity (but not sure if it's needed):
>
>>> - flog(LOG_WARNING, "IPv6 forwarding seems to be
>>> disabled, but continuing anyway.");
>>> + flog(LOG_WARNING, "Global IPv6 forwarding seems to be
>>> disabled, continuing anyway.");
>

Let me check this out for the 2.6.31.12 kernel.  I was trying to disable
IPv6 routing on interfaces not used for routing because otherwise I cannot use
LRO on those interfaces.

I'll do some testing tomorrow and get back to you.

Thanks,
Ben

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