From: Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IPv6 multicast bind(), esp. v4-mapped addresses
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 09:22:55 +0200 (EET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.2.00.0812100921290.12460@netcore.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081205.000322.147998414.davem@davemloft.net>
On Fri, 5 Dec 2008, David Miller wrote:
> From what I've read, ipv4 mapped addresses are full of all kinds of
> tricky cases and issues. And, given that, using ipv4 mapped address
> for ipv4 multicast is just asking for trouble in my opinion.
FWIW, I've communicated this issue to Java developers. Let's hope
they'll enhance their Java shim layer to avoid mapped addresses some
time in the future:
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/net-dev/2008-December/000494.html
--
Pekka Savola "You each name yourselves king, yet the
Netcore Oy kingdom bleeds."
Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-10 7:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-05 6:42 IPv6 multicast bind(), esp. v4-mapped addresses Pekka Savola
2008-12-05 7:11 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2008-12-05 7:42 ` Pekka Savola
2008-12-05 8:03 ` David Miller
2008-12-10 7:22 ` Pekka Savola [this message]
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