netdev - Re: [PATCH] IPv6:fix the return interface index when get it while no message is received

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Date:	Fri, 22 Aug 2008 04:54:47 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	vladislav.yasevich@...com
Cc:	yanghy@...fujitsu.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IPv6:fix the return interface index when get it while
 no message is received

From: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@...com>
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:10:34 -0400

> Yang Hongyang wrote:
> > Vlad Yasevich wrote:
> >> We are returning np->daddr, which is the peer address.
> >>
> >> The expected value is "destination of the received packet".  In the worst case,
> >> it should be the locally bound address.  In the correct case, it should be the
> >> address set in the sticky options if such is set.  It really should be 0::0, if there
> >> are no sticky options and no packets have been received.
> > 
> > Since here we do not recive any packet,we should return 
> > src_info.ipi6_ifindex=0 and src_info.ipi6_addr=0::0,right?
> 
> That's what I've done in other implementations.

I'm patiently waiting for a patch to fix this.

Thanks :)
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