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Message-Id: <1412639626.712591.175897305.2FA01596@webmail.messagingengine.com> Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 01:53:46 +0200 From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org> To: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, simon.vincent@...lon.com Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] icmp6: Add new icmpv6 type for RPL control message On Tue, Oct 7, 2014, at 00:13, David Miller wrote: > From: Simon Vincent <simon.vincent@...lon.com> > Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2014 11:37:06 +0100 > > > IANA has defined a type value of 155 for RPL control messages. > > We do nothing if we recieve one of these messages. This patch is to > > avoid getting lots of icmpv6 unknown type messages when using RPL. > > > > Signed-off-by: Simon Vincent <simon.vincent@...lon.com> > > If we agree that pretty much our policy is that we treat as "known" > any ICMPv6 type assigned officially by IANA, then we should simply > add everything missing from the table at: > > http://www.iana.org/assignments/icmpv6-parameters/icmpv6-parameters.xhtml > > Any objections? Might be possible, but I would favor to get rid of the printk or move the test for informational icmp notifications up. Some of the type < 128 icmp (non-informal) packets we also report to user space, so we cannot just add them to a blacklist. Bye, Hannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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