netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] IPv6: add option to use anycast addresses as source addresses for datagrams

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Date:	Fri, 10 Jan 2014 07:20:14 -0800 (PST)
From:	François-Xavier Le Bail <fx.lebail@...oo.com>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.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>,
	Francois-Xavier Le Bail <fx.lebail@...oo.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] IPv6: add option to use anycast addresses as source addresses for datagrams

On Thu, 1/9/14, Francois-Xavier Le Bail <fx.lebail@...oo.com> wrote:

> This change allows to follow a recommandation of RFC4942.
> 
> - Add IPV6_ANYCAST_SRC_DGRAM socket option to control the use of anycast
>   addresses as source addresses for datagrams, with Advanced Sockets API
>   (RFC3542).
> - Add anycast_src_dgram sockopt flag.
> - Add ipv6_chk_acast_addr_src() to check if address is link-local on
>   given interface or is global on any interface.
> - Use them in ip6_datagram_send_ctl(), do_ipv6_setsockopt() and
>   do_ipv6_getsockopt()
> 
> Signed-off-by: Francois-Xavier Le Bail <fx.lebail@...oo.com>
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