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From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
To: Francois-Xavier Le Bail <fx.lebail@yahoo.com>
Cc: netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	David Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v4] ipv6: enable anycast addresses as source addresses for datagrams
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 16:03:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140122150345.GA7269@order.stressinduktion.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1390372958-3654-1-git-send-email-fx.lebail@yahoo.com>

On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 07:42:37AM +0100, Francois-Xavier Le Bail wrote:
> This change allows to consider an anycast address valid as source address
> when given via an IPV6_PKTINFO or IPV6_2292PKTINFO ancillary data item.
> So, when sending a datagram with ancillary data, the unicast and anycast
> addresses are handled in the same way.
> 
> - Adds ipv6_chk_acast_addr_src() to check if an anycast address is link-local
>   on given interface or is global.
> - Uses it in ip6_datagram_send_ctl().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Francois-Xavier Le Bail <fx.lebail@yahoo.com>

Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>

Thanks!

      reply	other threads:[~2014-01-22 15:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-22  6:42 [PATCH net-next v4] ipv6: enable anycast addresses as source addresses for datagrams Francois-Xavier Le Bail
2014-01-22 15:03 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa [this message]

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