From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: Shan Wei <shanwei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] IPv6: don't forward unspecified frames
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 10:50:53 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100223105053.77c2a122@nehalam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B836385.8090509@cn.fujitsu.com>
On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:11:33 +0800
Shan Wei <shanwei@cn.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> Stephen Hemminger wrote, at 02/23/2010 09:31 AM:
> > This showed up during UNH IPv6 conformance tests. It appears kernel
> > incorrectly forwards packets with unspecified source address.
>
> Which case? Is it about spec.p2#18 of IPv6 Ready Logo Phase 2?
> I don't see the phenomenon from spec.p2#18 case.
>
> > This looks like the place to fix this, but still not sure and have
> > no easy way to test it since ping6 won't send packet with unspecified
> > source address.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
>
> Kernel is coincident with the spec, see following commit.
>
Never mind.
I could not reproduce the problem, with a program that sends
ICMPV6 echo through AF_PACKET.
UNH reran the test, and the kernel is fine.
Looks like a tester problem.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-23 18:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-23 1:31 [RFC] IPv6: don't forward unspecified frames Stephen Hemminger
2010-02-23 5:11 ` Shan Wei
2010-02-23 16:46 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-02-23 18:50 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
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