netdev - Re: ping6 to own link-local address

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Date:	Tue, 20 Mar 2007 15:16:40 -0700
From:	Sridhar Samudrala <sri@...ibm.com>
To:	YOSHIFUJI Hideaki /
	 吉藤英明 
	<yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, CHINEN@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: ping6 to own link-local address

On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 10:19 +0100, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> Recent 2.6.21-git kernels do not respond to ping6 queries
> to our own (local) link-local address.  Now bisecting...

The following patch seems to be the cause for this regression.

[IPV6] ROUTE: Do not route packets to link-local address on other device.

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=a0d78ebf3a0e33a1aeacf2fc518ad9273d6a1c2f

Thanks
Sridhar

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