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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v5] IPv6: add the option to use anycast addresses as source addresses in echo reply
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 01:56:50 -0800 (PST)
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On Tue, 1/7/14, Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> wrote:

> I forgot to mention, rest of kernel followes the old RFC
> advise to never
> use anycast addresses as source addresses.
 
> I guess this will be weakend with upcoming patches so in
> future this
> depends on socket settings and other tweaks. If that's the
> case default will
> be to also respond with anycast source if original
> destination was anycast.
 
The next patch will address the datagrams case.

BR
Francois-Xavier