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From: "Rémi Denis-Courmont" <remi@remlab.net>
To: Ian Shorter <mcisho@yahoo.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel bug 14839: Trying to use a TUN device for IPv6 traffic, cannot set destination address.
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2010 17:25:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4d0194fe8536c59196233b56548b0314@chewa.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <846562.91258.qm@web113913.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>


On Wed, 7 Jul 2010 08:04:33 -0700 (PDT), Ian Shorter <mcisho@yahoo.com>
wrote:
> I reported this kernel bug at the end of 2009. In February 2010 Stephen
> Hemminger said that the problem was not unique to TUN, and that I should
> bring it up on the network maintainers mailing list, which I am finally
> doing. Do I need to provide the problem description again?

I really do not see the point of setting a destination address on a TUN
device. Since a TUN device has no link-layer, the notions of gateway or
destination is rather void of meaning.

-- 
Rémi Denis-Courmont
http://www.remlab.net
http://fi.linkedin.com/in/remidenis


      reply	other threads:[~2010-07-07 15:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-07 15:04 Kernel bug 14839: Trying to use a TUN device for IPv6 traffic, cannot set destination address Ian Shorter
2010-07-07 15:25 ` Rémi Denis-Courmont [this message]

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