netdev - Re: [patch net] ipv6: do not create neighbor entries for local delivery

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Date:	Wed, 30 Jan 2013 20:26:39 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jiri@...nulli.us
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, jmorris@...ei.org,
	yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, kaber@...sh.net, mleitner@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [patch net] ipv6: do not create neighbor entries for local
 delivery

From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 09:26:08 +0100

> From: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <mleitner@...hat.com>
> 
> They will be created at output, if ever needed. This avoids creating
> empty neighbor entries when TPROXYing/Forwarding packets for addresses
> that are not even directly reachable.
> 
> Note that IPv4 already handles it this way. No neighbor entries are
> created for local input.
> 
> Tested by myself and customer.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <mleitner@...hat.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.
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