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From: Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>
To: Felix von Leitner <felix-linuxkernel@fefe.de>
Cc: Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>,
	netdev@oss.sgi.com,
	"YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / ?$B5HF#1QL@" <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IPv6 has trouble assigning an interface
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 18:57:05 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d3c101b00bd9573e30aa843e2335439e@mac.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050426061011.GA8527@codeblau.de>

On Apr 26, 2005, at 02:10, Felix von Leitner wrote:
> OK for unicast. But multicast?  I expected link-local multicast
> to send on _all_ interfaces if I don't specify one.

This statement makes no sense.  "link-local ... on all interfaces".
Isn't "link-local" supposed to mean that the address is unique and
available only on that interface (ethernet segment)?  It's possible
to get the _same_ link-local address on multiple ethernet segments,
so in that case, where would you send the packet???  When you send
link-local packets, you must specify the link to which it is local.

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-04-27 22:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20050311202122.GA13205@fefe.de>
2005-03-12  1:33 ` 2.6.11: USB broken on nforce4, ipv6 still broken, centrino speedstep even more broken than in 2.6.10 Andrew Morton
2005-03-22  0:33   ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-22  2:18     ` Johannes Stezenbach
2005-03-22 16:22       ` Johannes Stezenbach
2005-03-24 11:59   ` [PATCH] [IPV6] Fix address/interface handling according to the scoping architecture (is Re: 2.6.11: USB broken on nforce4, ipv6 still broken, centrino speedstep even more broken than in 2.6.10) YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2005-04-25 19:57     ` IPv6 has trouble assigning an interface Felix von Leitner
2005-04-25 21:00       ` Pekka Savola
2005-04-26  6:10         ` Felix von Leitner
2005-04-27 22:57           ` Kyle Moffett [this message]
2005-04-27 23:31             ` David Stevens
2005-04-25 22:38       ` David Stevens

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