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authorAlex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>2024-02-14 09:26:30 +0300
committerPaolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>2024-02-15 17:34:40 +0300
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net: ipv6/addrconf: ensure that regen_advance is at least 2 seconds
RFC 8981 defines REGEN_ADVANCE as follows: REGEN_ADVANCE = 2 + (TEMP_IDGEN_RETRIES * DupAddrDetectTransmits * RetransTimer / 1000) Thus, allowing it to be less than 2 seconds is technically a protocol violation. Link: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8981#name-defined-protocol-parameters Signed-off-by: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
index 7afff42612e9..458305931345 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
@@ -2503,7 +2503,7 @@ use_tempaddr - INTEGER
temp_valid_lft - INTEGER
valid lifetime (in seconds) for temporary addresses. If less than the
- minimum required lifetime (typically 5 seconds), temporary addresses
+ minimum required lifetime (typically 5-7 seconds), temporary addresses
will not be created.
Default: 172800 (2 days)
@@ -2511,7 +2511,7 @@ temp_valid_lft - INTEGER
temp_prefered_lft - INTEGER
Preferred lifetime (in seconds) for temporary addresses. If
temp_prefered_lft is less than the minimum required lifetime (typically
- 5 seconds), temporary addresses will not be created. If
+ 5-7 seconds), temporary addresses will not be created. If
temp_prefered_lft is greater than temp_valid_lft, the preferred lifetime
is temp_valid_lft.