netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v5] IPv6: add the option to use anycast addresses as source addresses in echo reply

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Message-Id: <20140107.183305.1907441201345858474.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 07 Jan 2014 18:33:05 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	billfink@...dspring.com
Cc:	fx.lebail@...oo.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	hannes@...essinduktion.org, kuznet@....inr.ac.ru,
	jmorris@...ei.org, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, kaber@...sh.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v5] IPv6: add the option to use anycast
 addresses as source addresses in echo reply

From: Bill Fink <billfink@...dspring.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 17:55:07 -0500

> Why is ICMPV6 Echo Reply special?  Can't the internal structure
> of the network be divined from other ICMPv6 responses such as
> Destination Unreachable, Time Exceeded (Hop Limit), and Parameter
> Problem.

Right, this RFC is talking about source address selection in general,
so this anycast handling should be in a generic place too.
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