From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: thomas.egerer@secunet.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv6: Remove hoplimit initialization to -1
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 17:25:01 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110421.172501.245406861.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DAFF122.7010608@secunet.com>
From: Thomas Egerer <thomas.egerer@secunet.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 10:56:02 +0200
>
> The changes introduced with git-commit a02e4b7d missed to remove the
> hoplimit initialization. As a result, ipv6_get_mtu interprets the return
> value of dst_metric_raw (-1) as 255 and answers ping6 with this hoplimit.
> This patche removes the line such that ping6 is answered with the
> hoplimit value configured via sysctl.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Egerer <thomas.egerer@secunet.com>
Sorry for breaking this, patch applied.
Thanks!
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2011-04-21 8:56 [PATCH] ipv6: Remove hoplimit initialization to -1 Thomas Egerer
2011-04-22 0:25 ` David Miller [this message]
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