netdev - Re: [PATCH] Do not leave router anycast address for /127 prefixes.

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Date:	Mon, 25 Jul 2011 16:16:26 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, bjorn@...k.no, brian.haley@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Do not leave router anycast address for /127 prefixes.

From: yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 06:44:34 +0900

> From: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
> 
> Original commit 2bda8a0c8af... "Disable router anycast
> address for /127 prefixes" says:
> 
> |   No need for matching code in addrconf_leave_anycast() as it
> |   will silently ignore any attempt to leave an unknown anycast
> |   address.
> 
> After analysis, because 1) we may add two or more prefixes on the
> same interface, or 2)user may have manually joined that anycast,
> we may hit chances to have anycast address which as if we had
> generated one by /127 prefix and we should not leave from subnet-
> router anycast address unconditionally.
> 
> CC: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@...k.no>
> CC: Brian Haley <brian.haley@...com>
> Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>

Applied.
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