From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: david_mccullough@mcafee.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net/ipv6/route.c: packets originating on device match lo
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 23:54:50 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120625.235450.461931351446553280.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120626014226.GB3455@mcafee.com>
From: David McCullough <david_mccullough@mcafee.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 11:42:26 +1000
> Fix to allow IPv6 packets originating locally to match rules with the "iff"
> set to "lo". This allows IPv6 rule matching work the same as it does for
> IPv4. From the iproute2 man page:
>
> iif NAME
> select the incoming device to match. If the interface is loop‐
> back, the rule only matches packets originating from this host.
> This means that you may create separate routing tables for for‐
> warded and local packets and, hence, completely segregate them.
>
> Signed-off-by: David McCullough <david_mccullough@mcafee.com>
Applied to net-next.
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2012-06-26 1:42 [PATCH v2] net/ipv6/route.c: packets originating on device match lo David McCullough
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