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* [IPv6] interface-local multicast escapes the local node
@ 2013-02-06  8:49 Erik Hugne
  2013-02-06 12:12 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 28+ messages in thread
From: Erik Hugne @ 2013-02-06  8:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: netdev

It seems that packets sent to interface-local scoped multicast
addresses (ff01::/16) escape out on the network.
According to RFC4291 (section 2.7):
    Interface-Local scope spans only a single interface on a node
    and is useful only for loopback transmission of multicast.

Example program here:
https://gist.github.com/Hugne/4721151

//E

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2013-02-06  8:49 [IPv6] interface-local multicast escapes the local node Erik Hugne
2013-02-06 12:12 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-02-06 13:07   ` Erik Hugne
2013-02-06 13:49     ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-02-06 15:06       ` Erik Hugne
2013-02-06 15:12         ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-02-06 15:32       ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
2013-02-06 16:04         ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-02-06 16:18           ` Eric Dumazet
2013-02-06 16:25             ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-02-06 16:49           ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
2013-02-07  1:00             ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-02-07  7:28               ` Erik Hugne
2013-02-07 15:41                 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
2013-02-06 15:24   ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
2013-02-06 16:54     ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-02-09 12:10       ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-02-09 14:12         ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
2013-02-09 23:08           ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-02-10  9:59           ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-02-10 10:57             ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
2013-02-10 15:32           ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-02-10 18:42             ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
2013-02-10 18:49               ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-02-11 11:13                 ` [PATCH RFC 1/2] ipv6: introdcue __ipv6_addr_needs_scope_id and ipv6_iface_scope_id helper functions Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-02-11 13:36                   ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
2013-02-11 11:13                 ` [PATCH RFC 2/2] ipv6: use newly introduced helper functions __ipv6_addr_needs_scope_id and ipv6_iface_scope_id Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-02-09 15:50         ` [IPv6] interface-local multicast escapes the local node YOSHIFUJI Hideaki

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