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Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 18:43:26 +0530 (IST)
From: P J P <ppandit@...hat.com>
To: George Kargiotakis <kargig@...d.gr>
cc: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Linux kernel handling of IPv6 temporary
addresses
+-- On Thu, 17 Jan 2013, George Kargiotakis wrote --+
| Extensions as far as I know. On your RHEL it's '0' and that's why you
| weren't seeing any 'ipv6_create_tempaddr' as previously mentioned on your
| emails. If you change this value to '2' you'll also see those kernel
| messages.
Yep, worked! I manged to reproduce the log messages. So the patch earlier
does seem to fix this issue, doesn't it? It avoids retry once reaching the
max_addresses limit.
For the dynamic tentative settings of the interface, I think another patch
would be required.
Thanks so much!
--
Prasad J Pandit / Red Hat Security Response Team
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