From 7e9805696428113e34625a65a30dbc62cb78acc5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jiri Benc Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 13:48:20 +0100 Subject: ipv6: router reachability probing RFC 4191 states in 3.5: When a host avoids using any non-reachable router X and instead sends a data packet to another router Y, and the host would have used router X if router X were reachable, then the host SHOULD probe each such router X's reachability by sending a single Neighbor Solicitation to that router's address. A host MUST NOT probe a router's reachability in the absence of useful traffic that the host would have sent to the router if it were reachable. In any case, these probes MUST be rate-limited to no more than one per minute per router. Currently, when the neighbour corresponding to a router falls into NUD_FAILED, it's never considered again. Introduce a new rt6_nud_state value, RT6_NUD_FAIL_PROBE, which suggests the route should not be used but should be probed with a single NS. The probe is ratelimited by the existing code. To better distinguish meanings of the failure values, rename RT6_NUD_FAIL_SOFT to RT6_NUD_FAIL_DO_RR. Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- include/net/neighbour.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include/net/neighbour.h') diff --git a/include/net/neighbour.h b/include/net/neighbour.h index 41b1ce6c96a8..4c09bd23b832 100644 --- a/include/net/neighbour.h +++ b/include/net/neighbour.h @@ -252,6 +252,7 @@ static inline struct neighbour *neigh_create(struct neigh_table *tbl, void neigh_destroy(struct neighbour *neigh); int __neigh_event_send(struct neighbour *neigh, struct sk_buff *skb); int neigh_update(struct neighbour *neigh, const u8 *lladdr, u8 new, u32 flags); +void __neigh_set_probe_once(struct neighbour *neigh); void neigh_changeaddr(struct neigh_table *tbl, struct net_device *dev); int neigh_ifdown(struct neigh_table *tbl, struct net_device *dev); int neigh_resolve_output(struct neighbour *neigh, struct sk_buff *skb); -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b