netdev - Re: [RFC] net: ipv4: drop unicast encapsulated in L2 multicast

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Message-ID: <1409125114.11976.14.camel@localhost>
Date:	Wed, 27 Aug 2014 09:38:34 +0200
From:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
To:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Cc:	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] net: ipv4: drop unicast encapsulated in L2 multicast

Hi Johannes,

On Do, 2014-08-21 at 19:32 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-08-21 at 19:22 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>
> > 
> > RFC 1122 says that unicast packets encapsulated in broadcast
> > link-layer packets should be dropped. Implement that, but also
> > extend it to link-layer multicast packets.
> 
> I cannot find anything equivalent in the IPv6 RFCs - anyone more
> familiar with that who could help check for that?
> 
> And if it's *not* in the IPv6 RFCs, how should we implement this?

I haven't found anything, too. Should I bring this up with IETF?

Bye,
Hannes


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