linux-kernel - Re: IPv6 multicast forwarding

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Date:	Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:12:29 +0300 (EEST)
From:	Pekka Savola <pekkas@...core.fi>
To:	Alejandro Riveira Fernández 
	<ariveira@...il.com>
cc:	Todd Hayton <todd.hayton@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IPv6 multicast forwarding

On Fri, 24 Oct 2008, Alejandro Riveira Fernández wrote:
>> Let me apologize in advance for the length of this message - it is long!
>>
>> I'm trying to test out IPv6 multicast forwarding on a 2.6.26 kernel
>> and I'm getting some strange values for the upcall messages from the
>> kernel. My code is below, but to give an overview, my setup is as
>> follows:
>>
>>     sender ------ ff15::1 -----> [eth1] linux 2.6.26 [eth0] ------> ...

Maybe this isn't the bug you're looking for but you shouldn't be using 
ff1x multicast addresses in a test like this; ff1x means that the 
multicast group is of "interface-local scope" and it isn't useful for 
multicast forwarding.  So the kernel might be correct in not 
installing multicast forwarding state for a group address like this 
(but if it's a conscious decision, maybe the failure mode should be 
better).  See S 2.7 of RFC4291.

-- 
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Netcore Oy                    kingdom bleeds."
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