netdev - Re: [PATCH] inet6: prevent network storms caused by linux IPv6 routers

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Date:	Wed, 12 Jan 2011 18:52:11 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	kuznet@....inr.ac.ru
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] inet6: prevent network storms caused by linux IPv6
 routers

From: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 21:34:08 +0300

> Linux IPv6 forwards unicast packets, which are link layer multicasts...
> The hole was present since day one. I was 100% this check is there, but it is not.
> 
> The problem shows itself, f.e. when Microsoft Network Load Balancer runs on a network.
> This software resolves IPv6 unicast addresses to multicast MAC addresses.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>

Applied, thanks Alexey.
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