On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, David Miller wrote: > > One remaining corner case is NFS/IPv6 root, whereby userland won't have > > a chance to start before the network, and hence may miss the solicited > > RA. Or would it? By default, the next unsolicited RA can be anytime > > from now to after 10 minutes, so that's not sufficient. I wouldn't > > personnaly care, but... > > We already have cases like that with network device firmware that > has to be loaded in from the filesystem in userspace, and the > answer is to use a properly populated initrd. > > Same goes for things like this. > > That's the fact of life these days, like it or not.
Same story for NFS root when using strong authentication -- something has to be running in userland to manage that. - James -- James Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
