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authorTom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com>2015-08-01 01:52:13 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2015-08-01 02:07:11 +0200
commitbe26849bfb6fcee4123c687fc39bd6da1b3be328 (patch)
tree50ce755fe9e63af98db5ed5c33a94346537aa5fd
parentipv6: Implement different admin modes for automatic flow labels (diff)
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ipv6: Disable flowlabel state ranges by default
Per RFC6437 stateful flow labels (e.g. labels set by flow label manager) cannot "disturb" nodes taking part in stateless flow labels. While the ranges only reduce the flow label entropy by one bit, it is conceivable that this might bias the algorithm on some routers causing a load imbalance. For best results on the Internet we really need the full 20 bits. Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
-rw-r--r--net/ipv6/af_inet6.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv6/af_inet6.c b/net/ipv6/af_inet6.c
index 3f0ae3a7c0b1..44bb66bde0e2 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/af_inet6.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/af_inet6.c
@@ -771,7 +771,7 @@ static int __net_init inet6_net_init(struct net *net)
net->ipv6.sysctl.auto_flowlabels = IP6_DEFAULT_AUTO_FLOW_LABELS;
net->ipv6.sysctl.idgen_retries = 3;
net->ipv6.sysctl.idgen_delay = 1 * HZ;
- net->ipv6.sysctl.flowlabel_state_ranges = 1;
+ net->ipv6.sysctl.flowlabel_state_ranges = 0;
atomic_set(&net->ipv6.fib6_sernum, 1);
err = ipv6_init_mibs(net);