netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: Implement Any-IP support for IPv6.

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Message-Id: <20100928.135923.59699712.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 28 Sep 2010 13:59:23 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	zenczykowski@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, maze@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Implement Any-IP support for IPv6.

From: Maciej Żenczykowski <zenczykowski@...il.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 03:07:02 -0700

> From: Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@...gle.com>
> 
> AnyIP is the capability to receive packets and establish incoming
> connections on IPs we have not explicitly configured on the machine.
> 
> An example use case is to configure a machine to accept all incoming
> traffic on eth0, and leave the policy of whether traffic for a given IP
> should be delivered to the machine up to the load balancer.
> 
> Can be setup as follows:
>   ip -6 rule from all iif eth0 lookup 200
>   ip -6 route add local default dev lo table 200
> (in this case for all IPv6 addresses)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@...gle.com>

Does this already work on the ipv4 side?

If not, why only add it to ipv6?
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