Re: RFC3927 ARP patch status?

[Anand Kumria <wildfire@progsoc.uts.edu.au>]

Herbert,

On Sat, Jun 03, 2006 at 09:12:06AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> David Daney <ddaney@avtrex.com> wrote:
> > 
> > There were some discussions about whether it made sense for the kernel 
> > to support the behavior required by the RFC.  Other comments debated the 
> > wisdom of using a tightly targeted patch specific to the RFC, or whether 
> > a more general but intrusive solution would be better.
> 
> I think we've made it quite clear what needs to be done for it to be
> accepted.  All that remains is for someone to implement it.  If anyone
> really cares about this, then please write the code instead of talking
> about it.

Okay, to confirm: you want a patch which looks at the scope value and if 
the scope is link-local then we broadcast rather than do a directed ARP?

One I have where IPv6 encodes what address mask is link-local,
I'd like to follow the same style as. Should the kernel also set the
scope on IPv4 addresses like it does for IPv6 ones?

Thanks,
Anand

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