netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/2] [IPV6]: Fix source address selection for ORCHID addresses

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Date:	Sun, 02 Mar 2008 21:39:02 +0900 (JST)
From:	YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 
	<yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
To:	jmtapio@...kkotelakka.net
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] [IPV6]: Fix source address selection for ORCHID
 addresses

In article <20080221100842.GA24905@...kkotelakka.net> (at Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:08:42 +0200), Juha-Matti Tapio <jmtapio@...kkotelakka.net> says:

> Skip the prefix length matching in source address selection for
> orchid -> non-orchid addresses.
> 
> Overlay Routable Cryptographic Hash IDentifiers (RFC 4843,
> 2001:10::/28) are currenty not globally reachable. Without this
> check a host with an ORCHID address can end up preferring those over
> regular addresses when talking to other regular hosts in the 2001::/16
> range thus breaking non-orchid connections.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Juha-Matti Tapio <jmtapio@...kkotelakka.net>

Is this really required?
I believe address labels (rule 6) should work, no?

--yoshfuji
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