ipv6: increase maximum lifetime of flow labels

If the last RFC 6437 does not give any constraints
for lifetime of flow labels, the previous RFC 3697
spoke of a minimum of 120 seconds between
reattribution of a flow label.

The maximum linger is currently set to 60 seconds
and does not allow this configuration without
CAP_NET_ADMIN right.

This patch increase the maximum linger to 150
seconds, allowing more flexibility to standard
users.

Signed-off-by: Florent Fourcot <florent.fourcot@enst-bretagne.fr>
Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_flowlabel.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_flowlabel.c
index 4a06ed0..5f10b0d 100644 (file)
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_flowlabel.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_flowlabel.c
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
 #define FL_MIN_LINGER  6       /* Minimal linger. It is set to 6sec specified
                                   in old IPv6 RFC. Well, it was reasonable value.
                                 */
-#define FL_MAX_LINGER  60      /* Maximal linger timeout */
+#define FL_MAX_LINGER  150     /* Maximal linger timeout */
 
 /* FL hash table */