netdev - Re: Kernel bug 14839: Trying to use a TUN device for IPv6 traffic, cannot set destination address.

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Date:	Wed, 07 Jul 2010 17:25:01 +0200
From:	Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi@...lab.net>
To:	Ian Shorter <mcisho@...oo.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel bug 14839: Trying to use a TUN device for IPv6 traffic, cannot
 set destination address.

On Wed, 7 Jul 2010 08:04:33 -0700 (PDT), Ian Shorter <mcisho@...oo.com>
wrote:
> I reported this kernel bug at the end of 2009. In February 2010 Stephen
> Hemminger said that the problem was not unique to TUN, and that I should
> bring it up on the network maintainers mailing list, which I am finally
> doing. Do I need to provide the problem description again?

I really do not see the point of setting a destination address on a TUN
device. Since a TUN device has no link-layer, the notions of gateway or
destination is rather void of meaning.

-- 
Rémi Denis-Courmont
http://www.remlab.net
http://fi.linkedin.com/in/remidenis

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