netdev - Re: IPv6 duplicate address detection erroneously marking address as duplicate when a host receives its own multicast packets?

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Date:	Thu, 22 Apr 2010 10:41:40 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Brian Haley <brian.haley@...com>
Cc:	sam.cannell@...alyst.net.nz, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IPv6 duplicate address detection erroneously marking address
	as duplicate when a host receives its own multicast packets?

Brian Haley <brian.haley@...com> wrote:
> 
> Well, my initial reaction is XVM is doing the wrong thing looping-back
> multicast packets.  You can try the following (untested) patch, I can
> only confirm it compiles.

I agree, whatever is looping the packet back should be fixed.

And if we are going to filter them out at our end, then it should
be done below IP.

Thanks,
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