From: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
To: Yan Zheng <yanzheng@21cn.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH]small fix for __ipv6_addr_type(...)
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 17:20:50 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <437A5F42.3080100@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4376F2CE.4050003@21cn.com>
No, according to RFC 4007, loopback is considered a link-local
address.
-vlad
Yan Zheng wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I think the scope for loopback address should be node local.
>
> Regards
>
> Signed-off-by: Yan Zheng <yanzheng@21cn.com>
>
> ========================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.15-rc1/net/ipv6/addrconf.c 2005-11-13
> 12:23:06.000000000 +0800
> +++ linux/net/ipv6/addrconf.c 2005-11-13 15:50:03.000000000 +0800
> @@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ int __ipv6_addr_type(const struct in6_ad
>
> if (addr->s6_addr32[3] == htonl(0x00000001))
> return (IPV6_ADDR_LOOPBACK | IPV6_ADDR_UNICAST |
> -
> IPV6_ADDR_SCOPE_TYPE(IPV6_ADDR_SCOPE_LINKLOCAL)); /* addr-select 3.4 */
> +
> IPV6_ADDR_SCOPE_TYPE(IPV6_ADDR_SCOPE_NODELOCAL)); /* addr-select 3.4 */
>
> return (IPV6_ADDR_COMPATv4 | IPV6_ADDR_UNICAST |
> IPV6_ADDR_SCOPE_TYPE(IPV6_ADDR_SCOPE_GLOBAL)); /*
> addr-select 3.3 */
> -
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-15 22:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-13 8:01 [PATCH]small fix for __ipv6_addr_type(...) Yan Zheng
2005-11-15 22:20 ` Vlad Yasevich [this message]
2005-11-16 1:10 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
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