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Message-ID: <46A8E0E8.6080209@hp.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:59:04 -0400
From: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@...com>
To: Dave Johnson <djohnson+linux-kernel@...starentnetworks.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
lksctp-developers@...ts.sourceforge.net,
sakkiped@...rentnetworks.com
Subject: Re: [Lksctp-developers] [PATCH] IPv6: ipv6_addr_type() doesn't know
about RFC4193 addresses
Dave Johnson wrote:
> David Miller writes:
>> Contrarily, there may be ipv6_addr_type() call sites that really
>> do want to reject rfc4193 addresses.
>
> A quick look through the callers and only these functions should be
> effected, they check either RESERVED or UNICAST from ipv6_addr_type():
>
> net/ipv6/addrconf.c: ipv6_dev_get_saddr()
> net/ipv6/exthdrs.c: ipv6_dest_hao()
> net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c: ip6_tnl_set_cap()
> net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6t_REJECT.c: send_reset()
> net/ipv6/route.c: ip6_route_add()
> net/ipv6/route.c: ip6_pkt_drop()
> net/sctp/ipv6.c: sctp_v6_available()
> net/sctp/ipv6.c: sctp_v6_addr_valid()
>
Well, it's not just for SCTP. ULA address are considered of Global scope.
See this message
http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=118492205915816&w=2
-vlad
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