From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vlad Yasevich Subject: Re: [Lksctp-developers] [PATCH] IPv6: ipv6_addr_type() doesn't know about RFC4193 addresses Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:10:33 -0400 Message-ID: <46A8E399.70806@hp.com> References: <18087.57717.495366.413571@zeus.sw.starentnetworks.com> <46A8D837.1030400@simon.arlott.org.uk> <18088.57675.352324.783405@zeus.sw.starentnetworks.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Simon Arlott , netdev@vger.kernel.org, Srinivas Akkipeddi , davem@davemloft.net, lksctp-developers@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Dave Johnson Return-path: Received: from atlrel6.hp.com ([156.153.255.205]:43978 "EHLO atlrel6.hp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761718AbXGZSWX (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:22:23 -0400 In-Reply-To: <18088.57675.352324.783405@zeus.sw.starentnetworks.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Dave Johnson wrote: > Simon Arlott writes: >> But ULA's scope isn't global, shouldn't it be IPV6_ADDR_SCOPE_ORGLOCAL ? > > Isn't ORGLOCAL defined for multicast only? Yes, it's only for multicast. Unicast addresses only have 2 scopes any more: Global and Link-Local. -vlad > > rfc4193 section 3.3 says: > >> 3.3. Scope Definition >> By default, the scope of these addresses is global. That is, they >> are not limited by ambiguity like the site-local addresses defined in >> [ADDARCH]. > >