From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>
Cc: vnuorval@tcs.hut.fi, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org,
usagi-core@linux-ipv6.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IPv6: (5/5) Allow IPv6 tunnels without own IPv6 address
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 03:51:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030901035134.2585aa79.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0309011345141.17318-100000@netcore.fi>
On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 13:48:44 +0300 (EEST)
Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi> wrote:
> Well, link-local addresses are used e.g. by routing protocols and such, so
> having one is probably rather important..
Ok.
> FWIW, on FreeBSD platform they take the link-local address of the first
> physical interface, and give the exact same link-local address on all of
> the tunnels, disambiuating them with the scope identifier. Seems like an
> OK appaorach too, and guarantees (to the degree of unique MAC addresses)
> that the addresses of the endpoints do not clash.
Interesting approach... I'm not particularly picky about how this
uniqueness issue is solved.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-01 10:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-31 23:34 [PATCH] IPv6: (1/5) Fix bugs in ip6_tunnel.c ICMP error handler Ville Nuorvala
2003-08-31 23:37 ` [PATCH] IPv6: (2/5) Use free_netdev() as destructor in ip6_tunnel.c Ville Nuorvala
2003-08-31 23:46 ` Ville Nuorvala
2003-09-01 8:45 ` David S. Miller
2003-08-31 23:48 ` [PATCH] IPv6: (3/5) Set dev->dev_addr and dev->broadcast in ip6_tnls Ville Nuorvala
2003-08-31 23:57 ` [PATCH] IPv6: (4/5) Remove sockets from ip6_tunnel.c Ville Nuorvala
2003-09-01 0:11 ` [PATCH] IPv6: (5/5) Allow IPv6 tunnels without own IPv6 address Ville Nuorvala
2003-09-01 2:24 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2003-09-01 8:18 ` Ville Nuorvala
2003-09-01 9:03 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-01 10:48 ` Pekka Savola
2003-09-01 10:51 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2003-09-01 14:24 ` [PATCH] IPv6: (5/5+1) Autoconfig link-local addr to IPv6 tunnels Ville Nuorvala
2003-09-02 11:35 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-02 21:37 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2003-09-03 10:17 ` Ville Nuorvala
2003-09-03 10:22 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2003-09-03 11:48 ` Pekka Savola
2003-09-03 16:57 ` Ville Nuorvala
2003-09-05 14:31 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-02 14:40 ` Pekka Savola
2003-09-02 16:59 ` Ville Nuorvala
2003-09-03 6:10 ` Pekka Savola
2003-09-03 12:15 ` Ville Nuorvala
2003-09-01 8:52 ` [PATCH] IPv6: (5/5) Allow IPv6 tunnels without own IPv6 address David S. Miller
2003-09-01 8:48 ` [PATCH] IPv6: (4/5) Remove sockets from ip6_tunnel.c David S. Miller
2003-09-01 8:47 ` [PATCH] IPv6: (3/5) Set dev->dev_addr and dev->broadcast in ip6_tnls David S. Miller
2003-09-01 8:41 ` [PATCH] IPv6: (1/5) Fix bugs in ip6_tunnel.c ICMP error handler David S. Miller
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