netdev - Re: [patch] ipv6.7: IPV6_ROUTER

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Date:	Mon, 15 Oct 2007 08:51:16 +0300 (EEST)
From:	Pekka Savola <pekkas@...core.fi>
To:	Andrew McDonald <andrew@...onald.org.uk>
cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] ipv6.7: IPV6_ROUTER_ALERT sockopt correction

Took off linux-man from cc:,

On Sun, 14 Oct 2007, Andrew McDonald wrote:
> +The tapped packets are not forwarded by the kernel, it is the
> +user's responsibility to send them out again.

This is probably incompliant (and from users' perspective, 
unacceptible) behaviour that IMHO should be fixed.

-- 
Pekka Savola                 "You each name yourselves king, yet the
Netcore Oy                    kingdom bleeds."
Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings
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