From: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com>
To: "YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明" <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Cc: shanwei@cn.fujitsu.com, davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] IPv6: fix bug when specifying the non-exist outgoing interface
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:39:06 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4844303A.7090909@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080603.014105.73332390.yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 wrote:
>> In the current git tree, this :: address is going to turn-into ::1, so
>> the ifindex is irrelevant, the packet will be looped-back. Older
>> kernels could transmit the packet on the wire using the default route.
>> Can you elaborate on the problem you were seeing?
>
> Confused. We are not talking about destination address but source
> address, right?
I was testing with both set to :: to see if the source address was ever
getting transmitted as ::, but only noticed the destination address was
on an older kernel. That was my confusion, but there is still some bug
here.
-Brian
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-02 17:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-02 8:12 [PATCH] IPv6: fix bug when specifying the non-exist outgoing interface Shan Wei
2008-06-02 8:20 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2008-06-02 8:52 ` [PATCH v2] " Shan Wei
2008-06-02 8:59 ` Shan Wei
2008-06-02 9:17 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2008-06-02 16:14 ` Brian Haley
2008-06-02 16:26 ` Brian Haley
2008-06-02 16:41 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2008-06-02 16:46 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2008-06-02 16:48 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2008-06-02 17:07 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2008-06-02 17:39 ` Brian Haley
2008-06-03 4:52 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2008-06-03 7:03 ` Shan Wei
2008-06-03 7:04 ` Shan Wei
2008-06-02 17:39 ` Brian Haley [this message]
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