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Subject: Re: IPv6 duplicate address detection erroneously marking address
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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.