Re: 2.4.21+ - IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling b0rked

Pekka Savola
2003-07-11T05:08:12Z

On 11 Jul 2003, Mika Liljeberg wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 07:51, Pekka Savola wrote:
> > Well, the system may make some sense, but IMHO, there is still zero sense
> > in policing this thing when you add a route. That's just plain bogus.
> > This is a bug which must be fixed ASAP.
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong but I think in this case the interface had
> forwarding enabled and the sanity check in fact prevented a default
> route pointing to the node itself from being configured.
>
> Otherwise I fully agree. The subnet router anycast address doesn't
> warrant any special handling.

If that's the case, it's OK -- it's OK, I don't remember the details.

(It might be nice to have configurable /proc option on whether to enable
the subnet router anycast address at all, but that's also a different
story..)

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