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Message-ID: <20131107011640.GE8144@order.stressinduktion.org> Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2013 02:16:40 +0100 From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org> To: "Steinar H. Gunderson" <sgunderson@...foot.com> Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, ayourtch@...il.com Subject: Re: Linux sends IPv6 NS packets with the link-local address On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 01:56:15AM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 01:46:11AM +0100, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote: > > Problem was, if we enqueue a packet to the resolving queue we use those > > packets source address as the address we use as the source address. This > > patch chooses the last enqueued skb's source address to do the resolving > > thus switching over to a global address much more early (hopefully). I > > have seen this problem with routers doing uRPF on the source address of > > arp packets, too. > > > > Does this happen when you configure addresses? Do your addresses have > > a short lifetime advertised by radvd etc? > > There are no autoconfigured addresses on the machine; statically set plus > link-layer only. It does _serve_ RA for another VLAN, though (it does > 802.1q, some tunnels, and some BGP). Ok, still the patch should improve the situation if the first packet queued up used the ll-address as source. Greetings, Hannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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