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* ICMPv6 sockets
@ 2015-12-12 16:02 Jesse White
  2015-12-13  1:26 ` Eric Dumazet
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Jesse White @ 2015-12-12 16:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: netdev

Hi all,

Support for IPPROTO_ICMP socket binds was added in commit c319b4d76b9e583a5d88d6bf190e079c4e43213d
which allow for process to send ICMP_ECHO messages (and receive the corresponding ICMP_ECHOREPLY messages)
without any special privileges.

There doesn't appear to be any similar functionality for IPPROTO_ICMPV6.

Would the net maintainers be open to including a patch that adds similar support for ICMPv6?

Thanks,
Jesse

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* Re: ICMPv6 sockets
  2015-12-12 16:02 ICMPv6 sockets Jesse White
@ 2015-12-13  1:26 ` Eric Dumazet
  2015-12-13  4:19   ` Jesse White
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Eric Dumazet @ 2015-12-13  1:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jesse White; +Cc: netdev

On Sat, 2015-12-12 at 11:02 -0500, Jesse White wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Support for IPPROTO_ICMP socket binds was added in commit
> c319b4d76b9e583a5d88d6bf190e079c4e43213d
> which allow for process to send ICMP_ECHO messages (and receive the
> corresponding ICMP_ECHOREPLY messages)
> without any special privileges.
> 
> There doesn't appear to be any similar functionality for
> IPPROTO_ICMPV6.
> 
> Would the net maintainers be open to including a patch that adds
> similar support for ICMPv6?

But there is IPv6 support already, this was added in linux-3.11 by
Lorenzo Colitti.

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* Re: ICMPv6 sockets
  2015-12-13  1:26 ` Eric Dumazet
@ 2015-12-13  4:19   ` Jesse White
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Jesse White @ 2015-12-13  4:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Eric Dumazet, netdev


On 12/12/2015 08:26 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> But there is IPv6 support already, this was added in linux-3.11 by
> Lorenzo Colitti.

Thanks for the info, found it in 6d0bfe22611602f36617bc7aa2ffa1bbb2f54c67.

-Jesse

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