netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] IPv6: fix bug when specifying the non-exist outgoing interface

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Date:	Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:39:06 -0400
From:	Brian Haley <brian.haley@...com>
To:	YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 
	<yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
Cc:	shanwei@...fujitsu.com, davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] IPv6: fix bug when specifying the non-exist outgoing
 interface

YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 wrote:
>> In the current git tree, this :: address is going to turn-into ::1, so 
>> the ifindex is irrelevant, the packet will be looped-back.  Older 
>> kernels could transmit the packet on the wire using the default route. 
>> Can you elaborate on the problem you were seeing?
> 
> Confused.  We are not talking about destination address but source
> address, right?

I was testing with both set to :: to see if the source address was ever
getting transmitted as ::, but only noticed the destination address was
on an older kernel.  That was my confusion, but there is still some bug
here.

-Brian
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