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From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v4] ipv6: enable anycast addresses as source addresses for datagrams
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 16:03:45 +0100
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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!