netdev - Re: ping6 to own link-local address

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Message-Id: <20070406.163531.51929668.yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Date:	Fri, 06 Apr 2007 16:35:31 +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, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: ping6 to own link-local address

Hello.

In article <20070328.014533.112621902.davem@...emloft.net> (at Wed, 28 Mar 2007 01:45:33 -0700 (PDT)), David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> says:

> > > > [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?
> 
> I will look into this and make some kind of decision on how
> to proceed tomorrow.

Dave?

I do think this is a regression in 2.6.21-rcs, and it is much
better to revert it.

Thank you.

--yoshfuji
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