netdev - Re: [PATCH net] ipv6: don't install anycast address for /128 addresses on routers

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Message-Id: <20140106.163316.2147203775291363000.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 06 Jan 2014 16:33:16 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	hannes@...essinduktion.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, fx.lebail@...oo.com, thaller@...hat.com,
	jiri@...nulli.us
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ipv6: don't install anycast address for /128
 addresses on routers

From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 17:53:14 +0100

> It does not make sense to create an anycast address for an /128-prefix.
> Suppress it.
> 
> As 32019e651c6fce ("ipv6: Do not leave router anycast address for /127
> prefixes.") shows we also may not leave them, because we could accidentally
> remove an anycast address the user has allocated or got added via another
> prefix.
> 
> Cc: François-Xavier Le Bail <fx.lebail@...oo.com>
> Cc: Thomas Haller <thaller@...hat.com>
> Cc: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
> Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>

Applied, thank you.
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