netdev - Re: ping6 to own link-local address

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Message-Id: <20070328.165748.48153731.yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Date:	Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:57:48 +0900 (JST)
From:	YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 
	<yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
To:	davem@...emloft.net
Cc:	sri@...ibm.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, CHINEN@...ibm.com,
	yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: ping6 to own link-local address

In article <20070321.002609.58216683.yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org> (at Wed, 21 Mar 2007 00:26:09 +0100 (CET)), YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org> says:

> In article <1174429000.3255.3.camel@...ridhar2.beaverton.ibm.com> (at Tue, 20 Mar 2007 15:16:40 -0700), Sridhar Samudrala <sri@...ibm.com> says:
> 
> > 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
> 
> Right.  Hmm...

Well, 2.6.21 is coming.  I think it is better to revert it for now.
Current situation is more critical than the original.

Dave?

--yoshfuji
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