netdev - Re: [PATCH] ipv6: don't accept multicast traffic with scop 0

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Date:	Mon, 11 Feb 2013 20:48:35 +0100
From:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org,
	erik.hugne@...csson.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv6: don't accept multicast traffic with scop 0

On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 01:48:51PM +0100, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
> +	/*
> +	 * RFC4291 2.7
> +	 * Nodes must not originate a packet to a multicast address whose scop
> +	 * field contains the reserved value 0; if such a packet is received, it
> +	 * must be silently dropped.

Just nit-picking: The field is actually called scop without e, as pointed out
by three erratas to RFC4291. :)

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