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From: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com>
To: "YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明" <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Cc: shanwei@cn.fujitsu.com, davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] IPv6: fix bug when specifying the non-exist outgoing interface
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:39:06 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4844303A.7090909@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080603.014105.73332390.yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>

YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 wrote:
>> In the current git tree, this :: address is going to turn-into ::1, so 
>> the ifindex is irrelevant, the packet will be looped-back.  Older 
>> kernels could transmit the packet on the wire using the default route. 
>> Can you elaborate on the problem you were seeing?
> 
> Confused.  We are not talking about destination address but source
> address, right?

I was testing with both set to :: to see if the source address was ever
getting transmitted as ::, but only noticed the destination address was
on an older kernel.  That was my confusion, but there is still some bug
here.

-Brian

      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-06-02 17:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-02  8:12 [PATCH] IPv6: fix bug when specifying the non-exist outgoing interface Shan Wei
2008-06-02  8:20 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2008-06-02  8:52   ` [PATCH v2] " Shan Wei
2008-06-02  8:59   ` Shan Wei
2008-06-02  9:17     ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2008-06-02 16:14     ` Brian Haley
2008-06-02 16:26       ` Brian Haley
2008-06-02 16:41       ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2008-06-02 16:46         ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2008-06-02 16:48           ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2008-06-02 17:07             ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2008-06-02 17:39               ` Brian Haley
2008-06-03  4:52                 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2008-06-03  7:03                   ` Shan Wei
2008-06-03  7:04                   ` Shan Wei
2008-06-02 17:39         ` Brian Haley [this message]

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