netdev - Re: IPv6 duplicate address detection erroneously marking address as duplicate when a host receives its own multicast packets?

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Date:	Wed, 21 Apr 2010 22:30:22 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
Cc:	brian.haley@...com, sam.cannell@...alyst.net.nz,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IPv6 duplicate address detection erroneously marking address
 as duplicate when a host receives its own multicast packets?

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 10:41:40 +0800

> Brian Haley <brian.haley@...com> wrote:
>> 
>> Well, my initial reaction is XVM is doing the wrong thing looping-back
>> multicast packets.  You can try the following (untested) patch, I can
>> only confirm it compiles.
> 
> I agree, whatever is looping the packet back should be fixed.

Ethernet does not send multicasts to itself, so we're definitely not
going to cater to this XVM behavior.
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