From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au
Cc: brian.haley@hp.com, sam.cannell@catalyst.net.nz, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IPv6 duplicate address detection erroneously marking address as duplicate when a host receives its own multicast packets?
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 22:30:22 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100421.223022.126085425.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100422024140.GA7215@gondor.apana.org.au>
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 10:41:40 +0800
> Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com> wrote:
>>
>> Well, my initial reaction is XVM is doing the wrong thing looping-back
>> multicast packets. You can try the following (untested) patch, I can
>> only confirm it compiles.
>
> I agree, whatever is looping the packet back should be fixed.
Ethernet does not send multicasts to itself, so we're definitely not
going to cater to this XVM behavior.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-22 5:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-21 20:13 IPv6 duplicate address detection erroneously marking address as duplicate when a host receives its own multicast packets? Sam Cannell
2010-04-22 1:27 ` Brian Haley
2010-04-22 2:41 ` Herbert Xu
2010-04-22 5:30 ` David Miller [this message]
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