From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: nordmark@arista.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, gilligan@arista.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2] ipv6: Allow IPv4-mapped address as next-hop
Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2016 14:52:23 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161205.145223.1574324293082144579.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1480827429-22259-1-git-send-email-nordmark@arista.com>
From: Erik Nordmark <nordmark@arista.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2016 20:57:09 -0800
> Made kernel accept IPv6 routes with IPv4-mapped address as next-hop.
>
> It is possible to configure IP interfaces with IPv4-mapped addresses, and
> one can add IPv6 routes for IPv4-mapped destinations/prefixes, yet prior
> to this fix the kernel returned an EINVAL when attempting to add an IPv6
> route with an IPv4-mapped address as a nexthop/gateway.
>
> RFC 4798 (a proposed standard RFC) uses IPv4-mapped addresses as nexthops,
> thus in order to support that type of address configuration the kernel
> needs to allow IPv4-mapped addresses as nexthops.
>
> Signed-off-by: Erik Nordmark <nordmark@arista.com>
> Signed-off-by: Bob Gilligan <gilligan@arista.com>
Applied to net-next, thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-05 19:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-04 4:57 [PATCH net v2] ipv6: Allow IPv4-mapped address as next-hop Erik Nordmark
2016-12-05 19:52 ` David Miller [this message]
2016-12-06 6:08 ` Erik Nordmark
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