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Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 01:56:50 -0800 (PST)
From: François-Xavier Le Bail <fx.lebail@...oo.com>
To: Bill Fink <billfink@...dspring.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
Hideaki Yoshifuji <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v5] IPv6: add the option to use anycast addresses as source addresses in echo reply
On Tue, 1/7/14, Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org> wrote:
> I forgot to mention, rest of kernel followes the old RFC
> advise to never
> use anycast addresses as source addresses.
> I guess this will be weakend with upcoming patches so in
> future this
> depends on socket settings and other tweaks. If that's the
> case default will
> be to also respond with anycast source if original
> destination was anycast.
The next patch will address the datagrams case.
BR
Francois-Xavier
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