linux-kernel - Re: IPv6 multicast forwarding

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Date:	Sun, 26 Oct 2008 12:26:27 +0200 (EET)
From:	Pekka Savola <pekkas@...core.fi>
To:	Todd Hayton <todd.hayton@...il.com>
cc:	Alejandro Riveira Fernández 
	<ariveira@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IPv6 multicast forwarding

On Fri, 24 Oct 2008, Todd Hayton wrote:
> Hey there, thanks for the response! I may be misinterpreting the RFC
> but I thought ff15::1 was a site-local address. As in I break down
> ff15::1 as follows -
>
> 0xff : identifies the address as multicast
> 0x15 : 4-bits flags and 4-bits scope where
>  flags = 0x1 meaning that the T bit is set as this address is not a
> permanently assigned address
>  scope = 0x5 indicating site-local scope

You're right.  The nibbles got switched in my head.  Sorry for that.
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