From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 14427] New: ipv6 forward cause strange route Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:19:02 +0900 Message-ID: <4AF011A6.1070903@linux-ipv6.org> References: <20091102223237.c0102f19.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <4AF00EA0.7030407@linux-ipv6.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org, bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org, Pekka Savola , davem@davemloft.net To: Andrew Morton , green@msu.ru Return-path: Received: from 94.43.138.210.xn.2iij.net ([210.138.43.94]:56778 "EHLO mail.st-paulia.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751200AbZKCLTB (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Nov 2009 06:19:01 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4AF00EA0.7030407@linux-ipv6.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: I wrote: > This is not a bug but a feature of IPv6 called "subnet anycast > address." The address is automatically assigned on routers. > > References: > RFC 2526: Reserved IPv6 Subnet Anycast Addresses > RFC 3627: Use of /127 Prefix Length Between Routers Considered Harmful I should say "Subnet-router anycast address" and RFC3513: Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Addressing Architecture". Sorry for confusion. --yoshfuji