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List:       strongswan-announce
Subject:    Re: [strongSwan-dev] [PATCH] fix network interface deletion handling
From:       Martin Willi <martin () strongswan ! org>
Date:       2011-11-14 14:59:51
Message-ID: 1321282791.2254.33.camel () martin
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Hi,

> > There should be no reason to keep a stale cache entry around, as was
> > claimed in the comment.
> 
> I'm not sure why the comment referred to "down" interfaces in the
> RMT_DELLINK handler, perhaps older kernel versions behaved differently?
> Martin, could you provide some insight into this?

I don't know if older kernels behaved differently, but at least my 3.0
kernel indicates ifup/ifdown events both with RTM_NEWLINK. So the pushed
patch should work fine even if the address of a down interface changes.

Regards
Martin


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