From: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com>
To: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ipv6_addr_type() and mapped IPv4 loopback
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:33:04 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <490FB460.2010501@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <06930890-5BC3-4BE2-97CC-B3F6DF33B794@oracle.com>
Chuck Lever wrote:
> The __ipv6_addr_type() function does not recognize the mapped IPv4
> loopback address:
>
> ::ffff:7f00:0001
>
> as type IPV6_ADDR_LOOPBACK. Is this intentional?
I would think that since the IPv6 loopback address is ::1, and
ipv4-mapped is ::ffff:* that this would be IPV6_ADDR_MAPPED. That's
what RFC 4291 seems to say.
-Brian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-04 2:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-03 23:01 ipv6_addr_type() and mapped IPv4 loopback Chuck Lever
2008-11-04 2:33 ` Brian Haley [this message]
2008-11-04 16:44 ` Chuck Lever
2008-11-04 20:19 ` David Stevens
2008-11-04 21:16 ` Brian Haley
2008-11-04 21:33 ` Chuck Lever
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