From: Lorenzo Colitti <redacted>
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 09:01:25 -0700

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 8:51 AM, David Miller [off-list ref] wrote:

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As the patch stands, they don't. Only autoconfigured addresses will be
cleared, because addrconf_ifdown() does not remove any addresses that
are permanent (unless they are link-local, in which case they are
recreated as soon as link comes back).

Ok, and that brings us back to the issue of losing a TCP connection
over a link-local et al. address during a minor link flap.

TCP connections don't go away when the address they are using goes
away. They go away if their address goes away forever. As mentioned
above in the thread, I did test this :)

Ok, that's good enough for me :)