Re: Linux kernel handling of IPv6 temporary addresses

[P J P <ppandit () redhat com>]

+-- On Sun, 20 Jan 2013, George Kargiotakis wrote --+
| Yes and no. When flooding finishes everything still works ok,
| temp. addresses haven't been disabled, but when the preferred timer
| of the temp. address of the original acquired prefix expires, the kernel
| won't be able to acquire a new temporary address because the interface
| is already full with 16 addresses from flooding. An already acquired
| address only gets removed when it's validity timer expires. So, the
| host will be left using the global non-temp address acquired by slaac
| until another 'slot' (from the default 16) becomes free/expires.
| 
| Summarizing, one is still able to remotely, inside a LAN, cause
| problems to another host, that is make it lose it's temp. address
| functionality at least for some time.

  Ah right. I just wanted to confirm if it makes sense to push that patch 
upstream. I think we'll defer it for now.

Thanks so much.
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Prasad J Pandit / Red Hat Security Response Team
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